Hello happy Sunday, and welcome to what's running through my brain on a Sunday morning. As you can tell by the title, today I'm thinking a lot about the new tech stack that has developed over the course of the year that now seems to be fully cemented in many ways. Seriously, this has happened fast and I can already see a lot of people getting left behind.
The reality is, the software development world is moving faster than ever before, thanks to AI. With this change comes a bifurcation - those who jump in and use the new stack, and those who stick to the way they've been doing things for years. For devs who are jamming with new tools the impact is clear - much faster development times and the ability to iterate and launch new ideas at a speed that a traditional dev just won't be able to compete with.
A lot of people have been posting what they're using to build on Twitter/X and I've noticed a pretty clear pattern. I pretty much gave it away in the title of this post but I'll share one of the tweets below so you can see a good example of someone leveraging this new stack.
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In many ways this is like the old Tired and Wired section of Wired Magazine except it all happened, fast. As I see it today, here's the new tech stack that you can either start using right away, or wait on and get further behind (sorry to be harsh but it's true!)
Dev IDE: Cursor or Windsurf
Fontend Dev: v0 or Bolt
Graphic design: Midjourney
Database: Supa or Neon
LLM: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (sorry but OpenAI isn't up to snuff on when it comes to coding...yet)
Now could this all change next month, yes - absolutely, the dev space is changing incredibly quickly thanks to AI, and the opportunities for new companies to jump in and take a chunk of the market is there. For now, these are the tools that me and many others are using, if you aren't using any of them yet, it's time to ask yourself why...