AI Is Just the Latest Frontend Killer. Don’t Panic.
July 28, 2025
AI coding assistants are great at scaffolding UIs, rewriting code, even generating decent boilerplate for common components. But they don’t know why one pattern is better than another. They don’t care about CLS or INP or how something feels when a user taps it on a laggy phone. They don’t push back when 300kB of JavaScript bloats the homepage.
Frontend engineering isn’t just building. It’s choosing. Tuning. Diagnosing. Holding the line when product wants “just a quick popup” and you know it’ll tank performance.
Source: AI Is Just the Latest Frontend Killer. Don’t Panic. — Den Odell
No one knows, how LLMs will impact software Development. But it is worth considering. Here Den Odell explores the potential impact of LLMs on front end development.
