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It's so weird how it looks like frontend is the first thing that CEOs are trying to automate away because in my experience, all frontier models are excellent at building infrastructure given a solid design, but absolutely NOTHING can get them to build out non-trivial user experiences correctly.

The reason for this is because when working in services, the LLM can mock and test almost everything and assert things function before coming back to you. While they can instrument playwright for frontend code, there's still so much it has zero visibility into.

Assuming API billing prices, these services are more expensive than a junior engineer (or two, or three, or five). You can clear $35k a month if you parallelize many streams. At that price, if someone, with that much confidence, was consistently wrong, I would fire them immediately.