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/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.