Exactly. Those who do frontend or focus on pretty much anything Javascript are, how should I say it? Cooked?
> Software will get automated
The first to go are those that use JavaScript / TypeScript engineers have already been automated out of a job. It is all over for them.
In general I use Cursor in manual mode asking it to make very well scoped small changes (e.g. “write this function that does this in this exact spot”). Yesterday I needed to make a largely mechanical change (change a concept in the front end, make updates to the corresponding endpoints, update the data access methods, update the database schema).
This is something very easy I would expect a junior developer to be able to accomplish. It is simple, largely mechanical, but touches a lot of files. Cursor agent mode puked all over itself using Gemini 2.5. It could summarize what changes would need to be made, but it was totally incapable of making the changes. It would add weird hard coded conditions, define new unrelated files, not follow the conventions of the surrounding code at all.
TLDR; I think LLMs right now are good for greenfield development (create this front end from scratch following common patterns), and small scoped changes to a few files. If you have any kind of medium sized refactor on an existing code base forget about it.
Gemini 2.5 is currently broken with the Cursor agent; it doesn't seem to be able to issue tool calls correctly. I've been using Gemini to write plans, which Claude then executes, and this seems to work well as a workaround. Still unfortunate that it's like this, though.