The Teach-Stack for Building Web Platforms in the AI-Native Era

Tools like Claude Code and Codex have completely reshaped how software engineering is done. This new tooling allows for much faster development and iteration, but it's important to keep the code maintainable and scalable to make sure the project can continue evolving over the long term. A template project with an initial structure using all of the technologies described here is available on GitHub: https://github.com/MartinXPN/nextjs-firebase-mui-starter When working on a startup, the speed of iteration is key. The requirements change quickly, features are added daily, and code gets modified rapidly. In those conditions, picking technologies that enable fast iteration, while ensuring your users get the best experience possible, is crucial. During the last four years or so, we have experimented with many modern technologies while building Profound Academy . So, in this blog post, I'd like to present the whole tech stack that enables building quickly, while having a highly maintainable codebase, scalable infrastructure, and a great user experience. We'll cover everything from Authentication to UI, we'll talk about the backend, hosting, testing, and much more! AI Agents, Skills, and MCP servers AI Agents enable quick iteration and rapid improvement, including bug fixes, the addition of new features, and performance improvements. Yet, it's important to keep the code maintainable for the long run. AI tools make it really easy to overengineer things and add thousands of lines of code to a project. It's important to resist the urge to solve problems that don't exist yet, and keep things simple (both in terms of the code, the infrastructure, and the user experience). Even in the Agentic Software Development Era, having a small and simple setup helps. Agents coordinate better, features are added faster, bugs are fixed more easily, and the code is maintainable by humans, too. So, we have chosen to take a balanced/nuanced approach to how we use AI Agents when it comes to worki