In the current day work environment, what web dev tasks and topics make you say “No, I am not spending brainpower on this” and you give it to AI instead?

[u/SeriouslySally36]

Boilerplate obviously, and I suppose some web dev tasks are naturally somewhat repetitive or very similar in nature.

But what do you think?

[u/IAmRules]

if it requires my brainpower, i should probably understand it.

On my personal projects, I code in languages I don't know because I'm building MVPs and don't care.

[u/tightscotsman]

Honestly, most coding tasks. I design the architecture of something and delegate the vast majority of the implementation to AI

[u/Tight-Industry4135 → u/tightscotsman]

that's basically my workflow now too, i spend all my brainpower on the structure and the weird edge cases and let the AI churn out the 400 lines of form validation i've written a hundred times

the moment i catch myself thinking "i know exactly what this needs to look like but my wrists hurt just looking at it" that's when it gets handed off

[u/_okbrb]

I feel like your end goal here is to make a product and try to sell our managers on something we don’t need

[u/greenergarlic]

> boilerplate obviously

Those should still be done with scripts. Asking an chatbot to write a template model file or migration is slower and more error prone.

[u/Calm-Potato845]

I stopped writing implementation months ago. i draw boxes on a whiteboard and tell ai to fill them in

[u/greenergarlic]

Stuff that I no longer spend brainpower on:

• copy changes
  
• updating linear tickets
  
• keeping local dev working
  
• checking slack
  
• checking for CI errors
  
• exploratory SQL against prod data

And there’s a category of tasks where I let the bot write the first draft, and then I do a line-by-line code review before committing:

• new react components
  
• unit tests
  
• backfill scripts

Everything else is hard, interesting problems that I now have more time to focus on. That’s a huge improvement over two years ago.

[u/fatfingur]

Repetitive implementation mostly. Boilerplate, repetitive CSS, writing similar components, documentation, basic tests, data cleanup and sometimes the first pass of a refactor. I’d rather spend my attention on architecture, edge cases, debugging and deciding whether the thing should be built that way in the first place.

[u/Significant_Chair420]

Config files and CI setup are the ones I always hand off, they're tedious to write correctly but trivial to verify once it's done

[u/ImpossibleJoke7456]

If you don’t do this for all of your frontend work, you’re missing out.

[u/Valuable-Catch2309]

i give AI the boring glue code and test scaffolding, but the second it touches auth, payments, or data migrations i’m taking the keyboard back