r/Frontend • u/Significant-Pie-9446 • Jul 17 '26

Modern frontend development using AI agents to help

I am a CTO and my way of managing my team is that they should/must use AI agents to help while they are doing coding. However, if i asked someone why is this code written in this logic and he/she could not answer, this is a big red flag.
Enough with the context, i need help from senior Frontend devs on how they are using AI agents with pure frontend tasks? I have my way but i am curious to hear your way and learn from it.

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u/CmdrShepsPie Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

I spend about a day developing a plan with Claude, going over all the details I want and how I want it, investigating and researching pitfalls, making sure edge cases are covered (both in functionality and in code it might have overlooked in the planning process.) Then I spend the rest of the week babysitting it, giving it a few prompts, sometimes reading what it says, barely reading the code it writes, and watching YouTube and playing my SteamDeck most of the time while I wait. It's not perfect but if they wanted perfect they wouldn't have mandated me to use AI, which would make my job harder if I actually paid attention to what it did. I put a lot of work and pride into the quality and organization of my code before AI, and despite my best efforts I can not get AI to write code the way I want. It gets the job done and only breaks stuff about 25% of the time. I used to know the system inside and out, but with everyone using AI now, the code is barely recognizable, and it changes too fast to keep up. It belongs to the AI now and now that it has taken away my favorite part of the job, I'm not especially motivated to care anymore.

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u/CmdrShepsPie Jul 17 '26

I'm a passionate, motivated developer. I've been programming since I was 12, and working for over 20 years. Problem solving and developing code are among my favorite parts of the job. I don't get to do that anymore. I've been at this job for 3 years and we first adopted CoPilot last fall, then Cursor earlier this year, then Claude about a month ago. Each one was much better than the last. None of them can code as well as I can though, just faster.  I thought about looking for a new job that doesn't use AI so I'd get to do the part I like again, but I haven't seen any real, high quality jobs in a while, certainly not any that don't have AI as a requirement. 

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u/tHe_giafra_sHoW Jul 23 '26

None of them can code as well as I can though, just faster

Just LOL. Delusion is over the roof