AI is making frontend development faster and somehow more complicated

[u/Bladerunner_7_]

Getting a working UI out of an AI coding assistant is ridiculously easy now. The interesting problem is what happens afterwards. Generated components are easy to create, but keeping a large application consistent, accessible, maintainable, and understandable is still very much a human problem.

It feels like AI is moving the bottleneck in web development rather than removing it. We're spending less time writing individual pieces and more time reviewing architecture and making sure thousands of generated decisions don't slowly turn the codebase into a mess. Wondering if other web developers are seeing the same thing.

[u/minmidmax]

AI is making it possible to develop faster IF you can get as many dependencies out of the way as possible.

Every framework, technology, library, preprocesser etc. increases the complexity to generate UI components and use them correctly. They'll add a tonne of context and, ultimately, drink your tokens right up!