Weird framing in this article. The author longs for the simplicity and directness of hand coding websites (in opposition to the corporate complexity that comes with frameworks and build processes etc) so turns to... AI and prompting? What?
Bundling and prompting aren't the only two choices now. You can still write HTML, CSS, and JS without engaging in someone else's solutionism.
https://aldenblog.io/posts/2026-01-29-back-in-the-sandbox/
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