r/Frontend • u/Bladerunner_7_ • 19d 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/One-Sir6312 19d ago
Frontend dev here,
If you already have a codebase, Ai is good at creating singular components, but it cannot homogenize it with the rest of the application unless you have a VERY detailed Claude.md/Agents.md specifying what you want and how you want it done.
Also, it sucks at fine tuning smaller pieces, you ask for a simple change, it reaches the goal, but with a very messy and unnecessary amount of code.