AI coding made me fall back in love with PHP (opens in new tab)

Hi DEV 👋 first post here. I'm an indie developer, and lately I've been building web apps with an AI coding assistant doing a lot of the typing. Along the way I noticed something I did not expect: the stack that works best with AI, for me, is a boring old one — vanilla PHP, vanilla JS, and SQLite. No framework, no build step, no compile. Here's the thing I've come to believe: when AI writes most of the code, the bottleneck stops being "how fast can I type" and becomes "how fast can I see it ru...