Not so locked in any more

The detail worth sitting with is that this wasn't a greenfield project. A mid-market firm rewrote existing, presumably working, dual-platform apps, which means the bar cleared here was 'good enough to replace production code,' not just 'good enough to prototype.' That's a meaningfully higher threshold than most AI coding demonstrations clear.

This is largely disconnected from recent activity in our archive, so it belongs to a broader conversation about AI-assisted development compressing the skill premium that once justified platform specialization. The React Native angle is notable because that framework spent years fighting a perception problem around performance and fidelity. If coding agents are now handling the rough edges that drove teams back to native, the framework's prior reputation becomes less relevant than its current tooling surface area.

Watch whether React Native's contributor activity and corporate adoption announcements accelerate over the next two quarters. If firms beyond this single mid-market case begin citing LLM-assisted rewrites as the justification for consolidating to a single codebase, that confirms the pattern is structural rather than anecdotal.