What Claude Got Wrong While Building My Next.js Blog

What Claude Got Wrong While Building My Next.js Blog I recently built a blogging platform using Claude as my primary AI assistant. Overall? It was impressive. But it wasn’t perfect — and the imperfections were interesting. Here’s what went wrong. 1. Version Awareness Issues Modern JavaScript stacks move fast. During development, I noticed: Confusion around the Next.js middleware → proxy shift Patterns that didn’t fully match Prisma v7 Inconsistent alignment with NextAuth v5 None of this broke the project. But it highlighted something important: AI doesn’t automatically understand the current state of the ecosystem. If you’re using bleeding-edge versions, you still need to guide it carefully. 2. SEO Was Almost Ignored This was a blogging platform. Yet: No proper static params generation Weak metadata setup No clear SEO-first structure The UI looked good. The routing worked. The app ran fine. But discoverability wasn’t prioritized. AI optimized what was visible. Not what was strategicall