5 Things AI Can't Do, Even in Zustand

This report analyzes five technical limitations AI assistants face when working with Zustand: store architecture/normalization, complex async flows, middleware ordering nuances, subscription/memoization performance traps, and migration/ecosystem compatibility. Key issues include AI failing to account for serialization constraints in persist middleware (e.g., functions like login disappearing on reload) and incorrectly ordering middlewares like persist, immer, and querystring. The study draws on official Zustand docs, GitHub issues, and AI code assistant error research to conclude that human supervision remains critical where AI commonly makes mistakes.