Devs have pivoted from frameworks to AI models [2026w22]

Remember when we used to spend our weekends arguing over the "right" routing syntax or which JavaScript framework was going to take over the world? Those days are rapidly ending. In this episode of Lead Prompt, I break down why the developer ecosystem has completely pivoted away from frameworks and toward AI models. From my early days releasing the Alpha Framework for PHP to today's frontier of running open-weight models locally on Linux hardware, the landscape of software engineering has fundamentally shifted. We dive into the hard data, including the latest GitHub Octoverse and State...