> The frontend is less risky to just hand to an agent.

The smaller the problem, the less risky it is to do this, regardless of the nature of the problem. This is not a frontend-specific issue today.

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josephg 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Frontend development - perhaps more than any other kind of software development - is “what you see is what you get”. There aren’t a lot of ways a website can be invisibly broken.

Systems engineering isn’t like that. Vibe coders beware: A database could silently corrupt data, or have latent security vulnerabilities. It might have a badly designed query language that will be difficult to change later. But frontend code can be rewritten at will. It’s a perfect target for LLMs.

	▲	Gigachad 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		At the same time I have found LLMs far less competent at frontend because they don't seem to have any visual understanding of what a good website looks like.
	▲	atomicnumber3 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		"There aren’t a lot of ways a website can be invisibly broken." ??? Have you never debugged weird react state before??? Have you never used a nontrivial SPA before? Even the most simple react SPA has about a trillion states. I don't really know how to respond to your statement than "no, they can definitely be invisibly broken."
	▲	owebmaster 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The UX is what makes the users use the apps, systems, games, their phones.

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etoxin 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When done properly, yes. But AI agents are doing a lot of data logic in the frontend that should be in the backend behind secure api's. When this happens, the frontend becomes a massive risk.