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In the previous part, we agreed on discarding Chatbots to move towards Generative UI. But for AI to “spawn” UI Components right on the user’s screen, the Frontend and Backend cannot just communicate via standard stateless APIs. They need to share a common State. The problem is: The AI’s brain and the User’s browser speak two entirely different languages. 2.1. Clear Demarcation: AIState vs UIState When building an Agentic system with an Interface, the first vital rule is to strictly separate AIState and UIState. ...

Answer-first: 10 honest predictions for AI-Native Frontend Architecture by 2028: Component Registries, MCP contracts, streaming transports, and career impacts. I’ve been designing AI-Native Frontend systems for the past year — specifically around Generative UI, the Model Context Protocol, and Astro’s Island Architecture. That’s a short window, but long enough to observe structural shifts that are not yet visible in mainstream discourse. This is not a hype piece. Each prediction includes the strongest counterargument I can make against myself. And where I have real production numbers, I use them. ...