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For frontend, we don't need people anymore: backend, especially complex stuff, LLMs really waste our time by not getting it/going in circles so we just don't re
by anonzzzies 2y ago
For frontend, we don't need people anymore: backend, especially complex stuff, LLMs really waste our time by not getting it/going in circles so we just don't really do that anymore as plowing through 100s of lines of code or prs that are wrong, not conform to standards, has libs included we don't need etc. It is pretty useless as agents will just go in circles until it's so messy that it would've been many times easier just writing it with code. And often it's hard to get out besides just rollback.
- dimgl 2y ago> For frontend, we don't need people anymore We've found that most, if not all, models are extremely bad at writing frontend code. I really hope you all know what you're doing here; you could end up with unmaintainable, incomprehensible AI slop...
- byoung2 2y agoI found ChatGPT can write terrible code for the simplest React components, but beautiful code for complex react-three-fiber components. I suppose that is because it was trained on beginner tutorials for basic components and advanced 3d modeling examples for react-three-fiber. For basic components, I’ve found that by asking for more complexity (e.g. ask it to wrap your nav component in a react context or a custom hook) yields better overall code.
- jjani 2y ago> For frontend, we don't need people anymore Does this include UI design? We're finding tools like v0 decent, but nowhere near production design quality. Same for just using Claude or Gemini directly.
- anonzzzies 2y agoA designer does the UI design; I mean frontend as in code.
- frabjoused 2y agoYou're definitely a backend engineer aren't you?
- jjani 2y agoNot OP, but most of my experience is in backend yet I find current LLMs better at backend code than at frontend code :)