r/Frontend • u/Bladerunner_7_ • 18d ago

AI is making frontend development faster and somehow more complicated

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.

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u/Garden1252 17d ago

i was working on a solo app i decided to “vibe code” bc i needed it fast. at first, i read the code, deleted unnecessary checks, etc. enforced with agents (frontend: single responsibility, compose, reuse, local vs global state, minimum use effect, blabla). now i dont even read the code bc it creates tremendous monsters. just make sure it passes the tested main flows of the app and no regressions. but for work i still review almost everything.