What AI Still Misses in Production Next.js Apps (opens in new tab)

Introduction You ask AI to fix a fetch. It does. Types pass. The component renders. You push. Then dev crawls to a stop. Or prod serves a blank page. Or GitHub says conflict on a file you never touched. The model did its job inside the file. It did not see the repo around it. That gap is where most Next.js pain actually lives. Not broken JSX. Wrong root folder. Wrong env layer. Wrong deploy model. Stale git ref on the remote. This list is the stuff that keeps surviving AI refactors, green CI,...