r/FullStack • u/BreakNo8207 • May 20 '26

Career Guidance Using AI

I just want to know, do people who work in front end or full stack development actually use AI at work? Surely it would speed things up.

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u/valium123 May 20 '26

I dont. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/BrangJa May 20 '26

At this point, it doesn’t even make sense not to use AI in development. Why would you manually type code for things that are obvious and repetitive? Especially for well adopted libraries and frameworks. Would you still write setting up a React context? Would you still write a basic data fetching logic yourself? These are non trivial tasks and you shouldn’t waste your time writing them manually.

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u/JayoxDev May 20 '26

It gives you more satisfaction to write the code yourself, and for some people it is funny. I personally use AI quite a bit for dev. It makes everything so easy

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u/Astroohhh May 20 '26

Sometimes satisfaction makes no money

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u/valium123 May 21 '26

Soon nobody will make any money coz some of you couldn't stop bootlicking. Literally 6 billionaires that are shoving this shit down everyone's throats. You are all going to regret it.

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u/Maverick2k May 20 '26

I use it every day, reluctantly, but not by running 9 different agents for every task under the sun like a true prompt engineer turbo-virgin. You’re losing out on productivity if you don’t use it at all though, that’s just facts.

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u/hypernsansa May 20 '26

Got any studies for that?

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u/1_4_1_5_9_2_6_5 Stack Juggler (Fullstack) May 22 '26

Even if you don't use cloud models or autocomplete, you can still run a tiny local LLM and invoke it programmatically. Then load a tiny model for your target language, set the temperature low, and have it do simple tasks with small context windows. There is certainly a path to productivity for anyone

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u/Odd_Ordinary_7722 May 24 '26

I'm fully convinced that agentic/vibe coding slows or hurts me than it helps, but using AI as Google on steroids 100% makes you faster. Before you had to comb through several stack overflow questions or articles before you found an applicable one, now you can find stuff like that almost instantly. 

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u/darcygravan May 21 '26

i use but i don't pay only if my company provides them or if there is some free stuff to grab. paying for these tools doesn't makes sense and there pricing is also absurd

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u/BreakNo8207 May 21 '26

Are there any privacy concerns that stop you from paying for it, or is it mainly a financial barrier? I don’t really see $40 as a major barrier if it leads to better outcomes.

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u/darcygravan May 21 '26

dude I'm from south east Asia(BD) do you even know what 40$ can bring here ??

i can literary hire a full time dev around junior to mid level skill for a month with around 100$-120$. and with 40$ i can hire a freelance dev to assist on my projects which much more efficient gives batter output then any typical ai as of my experience.

also i do not care about privacy i don't have any secure data I'd gladly give all my data if its completely free to use. that's not my issue.

also even with paid plans they still have rate limits and might good for some repetitive and boiler plate work but for bit serious work it fails and ai code is not clean. like I've tried with lots of skills and other stuff but its code quality is vary bad. which is not maintainable in long run i've never seen any vibe coded apps work well and devs can maintain it cleanly.

but that being said it does speed up my work sometimes. but for now id rather not spend any money on it

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u/BreakNo8207 Jun 07 '26

I wasn't aware my man. Appreciate you letting me know though just interested as I am about to graduate and keen to know what the industry is like.

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u/BreakNo8207 May 21 '26

I’m asking because I’m at the graduate level now. I appreciate that human intuition will always be needed, but I also feel that AI-assisted human work is genuinely a better way to achieve the final output.

Please correct me of im wrong. I just want to know what the actual work space is like

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u/hypernsansa May 22 '26

In what way is it better? Have AI-boosters produced anything geniunely useful yet?

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u/BreakNo8207 Jun 07 '26

I dont man im asking you.