I do frontend work (React/TypeScript). I barely write my own code anymore, aside from CSS (the LLMs have no aesthetic sensibilities). Just prompting with Gemini 2.5 Pro. Sometimes Sonnet 4.
I don't know what to tell you. I just talk to the thing in plain but very specific English and it generally does what I want. Sometimes it will do stupid things, but then I either steer it back in the direction I want or just do it myself if I have to.
> I barely write my own code anymore, aside from CSS (the LLMs have no aesthetic sensibilities).
Funnily enough, skeletoning out the CSS boilerplate is one of my favorite uses of LLMs (though, granted, I don't have much aesthetic sensibility either). I'm primarily a backend dev, though I'm competent on the front end. But I tend to be slow on the front end, because I don't do it enough to keep up with the constant churn and voodoo that is modern CSS. With LLMs I can literally just say something along the lines of "now make it pretty", and I get some CSS that is about 75% of the way there. I still have to do a bunch of tweaking/fixing, but it's a lot easier for me to fix CSS than it is to get some flexbox or whatever nonsense to work from scratch.
LLMs have caused me to write a ton more personal per projects because in the past I would have thought "I'll just waste a day getting the front end to look halfway decent", but now I can zip through that part of the project.
I don't know what to tell you. I just talk to the thing in plain but very specific English and it generally does what I want. Sometimes it will do stupid things, but then I either steer it back in the direction I want or just do it myself if I have to.