I know I said I was going to keep writing about concepts I use every day as a frontend engineer. Previously, I wrote about things like SPA routing, client-side vs server-side rendering, CDNs and all that good stuff. Life happened, a month went by, and honestly my workflow changed so much that it felt wrong to just jump back in without talking about it first.
Not that I stopped learning or building, far from it actually, but the way I approach features and fixes now is very different from what it used to be, mostly because of AI tools like Claude Code.
These days, I spend more time supervising code than actually typing every line myself.
At first, that feeling messed with me a little bit. It almost felt like I was cheating the process somehow. Like, if I’m no longer manually implementing every single thing, what exactly is my role now?
But after a lot of reflection, I’m starting to understand that engineering was never just about repetitive implementation. We were primarily created to think. To make decisions. To identify tradeoffs. To know why something should exist and what approach makes the most sense.
