React Server Components vs. AI: Solving the 'Use Client' Hallucination
LLMs trained on pre-2024 data often default to client-side React patterns. This guide shows how to prompt-engineer your way to clean, performant Server Components.
Ask an AI to build a Next.js component, and 9 times out of 10, it slaps 'use client' at the top of a static navbar. It's the "useEffect" muscle memory from 2022.
The Solution: Role-Based Prompting
You need to explicitly frame the architectural constraint. Don't just say "Build a component." Say:
Linter Rules
Update your ESLint config to enforce server-component-first patterns. If the AI tries to import `useState` in a file without `'use client'`, the linter should catch it. Feed this linter error back to the agent, and it will self-correct.
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