🦄 ai that works: agentic coding for frontend apps

​We do a lot of deep research and planning advice for building complex backend systems but in this week's episode, we're gonna talk about ways you can move faster and maintain quality for frontend code.

​While backend systems rely on good overall design and tend to be programatically verifiable, frontends require much tighter iteration loops and taste, and these explorations just don't suit themselves to complex up front planning. On the other hand, that shouldn't be an excuse to just regress to yoloing prompts. Good frontend code requires taste, judgement, and is just as vulnerable to a descent into chaotic spaghetti slop.

​Similar to our learning tests episode, this chat will cover small tactical side quests you can incorporate into your planning and development workflow to improve your frontend throughput. We'll primarily explore storybook as a vessel for interacting with and previewing UI, and approaches to separate presentation logic from business logic. By the end, you may find yourself wanting to ditch figma altogether and just write the components live.

​Meet the Speakers🧑‍💻

​Meet Vaibhav Gupta, one of the creators of BAML and YC alum. He spent 10 years in AI performance optimization at places like Google, Microsoft, and D. E. Shaw. He loves diving deep and chatting about anything related to Gen AI and Computer Vision!

​Meet Dex Horthy, founder at HumanLayer and coiner of the term Context Engineering. He spent 10+ years building devops tools at Replicated, Sprout Social and JPL. DevOps junkie turned AI Engineer.