Nobody Argued For Your Stack

Last week, it came to light Cursor had mostly finished migrating from SolidJS to React . This migration happened about seven months ago. But it became a central focus of discussion following the Solid 2.0 RC release . Then yesterday, a week later, it came to my attention that the Anthropic docs example command for their large-scale migration feature is: I admit that my gut reaction was not great. Out of all the examples they could have chosen... Years of my work became a canonical example of the thing you migrate away from — in the same week we shipped the biggest release in the project's history — stung in a way I won't pretend it didn't. My second reaction was to assume that, like the other trickle-down posts I'd seen this week, this rode the same week-old news cycle. Then I checked the Internet Archive and realized this has been there since at least April 2026 . Four months before the Cursor story broke. At this point, the whole public footprint was a mention of an experiment sandwiched between bigger updates in a Cursor blog post posted in January. The kind of thing that no one outside the industry would even really pick up on. No reasoning, no benchmarks, no argument. Stop to think about what that means. I should be careful here because I can't prove anyone at Anthropic ever read that Cursor post. Nobody can. Maybe a docs writer saw the experiment. Maybe Claude drafted its own example. But think it through. Either it traveled from a buried line in one company's release notes into another company's official docs, or it needed no origin at all. It was already assumed before any public migration existed. Our industry has quietly started broadcasting conclusions where it used to transmit arguments. We couldn't have picked a worse time, because — as I'll get to — arguments are the only source that still matters. Why This Matters More Than It Used To It would be fair to ask, hasn't it always been like this? Teams cargo cult large players. Netflix or Facebook uses thi