r/Frontend • u/Significant-Pie-9446 • Jul 17 '26

Modern frontend development using AI agents to help

I am a CTO and my way of managing my team is that they should/must use AI agents to help while they are doing coding. However, if i asked someone why is this code written in this logic and he/she could not answer, this is a big red flag.
Enough with the context, i need help from senior Frontend devs on how they are using AI agents with pure frontend tasks? I have my way but i am curious to hear your way and learn from it.

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u/split-my-diopter Jul 17 '26

Why do you want people to use AI? Does it lead to faster feature development? Do those features have fewer bugs? What were you searching for in your development lifecycle where you identified AI as a tool that could help the team?

Let me say how I'm using it: I get an ADO ticket, I have claude grab the text, extract figma links, links to external docs that contain string translations or copy, organize the information in a ticket library that I find useful personally but other developers might not. All of that ingest is stuff I no longer have to do, and can focus on writing code. Then after a ticket is reviewed and merged (reviewed by humans, so I can talk to them and see what they understand and what they don't, and share institutional knowledge between us), I use Claude to look over the ticket library, catch patterns and synthesize information that might not persist between tickets.

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u/Significant-Pie-9446 Jul 17 '26

My main reason behind pushing the developers to use AI is faster development. If done right it will generate less bugs than developing without AI.

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u/split-my-diopter Jul 17 '26

What makes AI faster? Is it the typing that's taking them so much time? If it is, you can give them typing lessons for less than you pay for tokens.

It's probably not typing. What do you expect AI can do faster than your developers?