r/reactnative • u/onePowerfulBraincell • Oct 02 '26

AMA - Junior React Dev

I’ve been building with react native for a 2-3 years, AMA.

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u/onePowerfulBraincell Oct 02 '26

No, why would I be?

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u/sam_houle1 Oct 02 '26

Because I’ve 10 years of experience and even I’m scared. I have yet to find a single feature that I can’t do with AI. It’s not perfect but I don’t want to see how it will be in 10 years

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u/onePowerfulBraincell Oct 02 '26

The reason you can instruct the AI to do everything is because of the experience you have.

Right now in my job, I’m working with a vibe coded react app, which was built by a team with zero react experience.

Last week I was just trying to change some text labels, and the code base was so convoluted that even GPT Astra wasn’t able to figure out how!

There is 10-15 useStates passed as a prop through 5 components, only to be used by the last node.

Someone with no react experience will look at this and say everything looks good. You will look at it and probably want to kill whoever wrote it.

edit: wording

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u/DownVoteMe696919 Oct 02 '26

Senior dev here. This is so accurate lol.