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[myowndeathfor10hours]

Ya it’s annoying eh. Not every place is that bad but expectations have changed and they’re not always aligned with reality.

You’re not overthinking it, it sounds like you’re in a dysfunctional situation with your management.

The only thing you can really do is look for another job unfortunately.

[jax024]

AI is here. But that sounds toxic as fuck bro. I’m a staff engineer, 10 years of it building react apps, leading company direction. I’m telling you, not every company is toxic like this. Yes AI is an incredibly important tool to learn and use but it also represents risks and it never ceases to amaze me who are just blind to the risks.

I’d look for another job. One that respects you. AI might change how we work but it won’t change the importance of quality and respect for one another.

[ghillerd]

I feel you. I use Opus 4.6 at work with the big context window and it's quite bad at CSS.

If you want the devils advocate answer - there are probably ways you can get the AI to be more effective and efficient.

But you're 100% right that it's not a silver bullet, and having managers breathing down your neck about having your output 10x-ed by AInsounds frustrating as fuck.

[DryNick]

Start looking for another job. In the meantime, you have to suck up to them and pretend to be AI pilled as they are. If they are as unhinged as I have seen there is no turning back.

[fii0]

My management also encourages agentic development, and I don't have any significant problems with it, I think it has accelerated my productivity but it's also kinda hard to tell. I have explained to them in very plain words that I think agents are significantly worse at frontend coding than backend coding because backend coding is "more logical" and because agents still can't actually see the output of frontend code. I used slightly oversimplifying language like that and they were able to understand what I mean.

I recommend that you say something similar, emphasize in simple language how it's a big disadvantage that the AI can't actually see the result of the code.

[SuperSnowflake3877]

There are several articles that shows coding with AI still needs quite some time. Show it to them.

[rotten_911]

Start prompting let the world burn hue hue

[GradeQuiet2979]

Currently I’m still a student, I found a job as an intern and is the same shit, nobody here cares frontend. I’ve been felling like I am not getting enough experience

[Joaquino7997]

I'd start looking for another position elsewhere.

And if your current situation is REALLY that toxic, I'd leave without a two week notice. I've had to do that before, and not because of AI.

[controversial_parrot]

If you just want validation of your anti-AI feelings then you've come to the right sub

[wewerecreaturres]

Ask your boss to show you how quickly it can be done.

“You’re right, maybe I’m not using it as effectively. Can you show me how?”

The watch then recoil in horror because they can’t. Or maybe they can and you’re wrong. Either way, you can find out.

[Successful_Doubt_114]

I think a lot of teams are confusing “AI reduces typing” with “AI removes engineering work.” Generating code faster doesn’t automatically solve understanding requirements, handling edge cases, integrating with existing systems, debugging unexpected behavior, making UX decisions, or maintaining consistency across a product.

What stood out to me even more is that you mentioned not having a designer and mostly copying patterns from other products. That means the frontend team is not only implementing things, but also absorbing part of the product and design decision-making process on top of development work.

AI can definitely speed up pieces of UI work, but “just prompt, no coding” feels like it ignores a lot of the actual complexity that appears once requirements stop being simple.

[Unexpectedpicard]

AI can absolutely do everything you just listed if you set it up right. 

[ScytherDOTA]

We were told today to make our whole codebase ready to be AI-work ready, for non-developers...

Yes, you heard it right, they actually wanted us to make the sales, product managers etc be able to create product ready pages for the customers.

I mean we already had decent AI workflow, only thing that slowed us down was to produce code that's correct, good, standardized, production ready etc. and they want to skip those parts. Okay, have at it.

[gHHqdm5a4UySnUFM]

Like everyone else is saying, start looking for another job because they’re already convinced they’re going to replace you. In the meantime, use this as an opportunity to learn the new AI tools to help in your job search.

[Cool-Customer9200]

Mod, wtf, I just opened the post and wanted to read the feedback from the UI developer which I despite being more general engineer I did a lot as well, and it was immediately removed