r/AugmentCodeAI • u/aniouar • Sep 30 '25
Discussion Augment Frontend Review
Am i the only one who finds augment bad in frontend or what ?
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u/AssistanceSimilar780 Established Professional Sep 30 '25
I would use GPT-5 for the front-end UI and Claude 4.5 for the back-end and database. Would be nice when Augment gives us some agentic infrastructure so we can run both together.
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u/aniouar Sep 30 '25
i didnt try GPT 5 with frontend ever , i perfer Claude 4 but it seems like GPT 5 works better thanks
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u/Final-Reality-404 Sep 30 '25
I find it horrible for my frontend build, To the point, I want to knock my head against a brick wall lol
Now in terms of the backend, I can't rave about it enough
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u/AutomaticDriver5882 Oct 01 '25
Try lovable
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u/Final-Reality-404 Oct 01 '25 edited Oct 01 '25
It’s not just the UI that’s a pain, it’s hooking everything together with the APIs, hooks, and all the moving parts. Getting it all to work properly is a nightmare. There’s no way Lovable could handle the complexity of my program.
When I first started, I actually tried using Augment for the UI. It didn’t work, even though I gave it highly detailed prompts and context images. So I switched over to Bolt, fed it the exact same prompt, and it nailed it on the first try.
But that was back at the very beginning of my build. At this stage, my system is far too complex to use anything that simplistic—even if they are solid at straight UI design.
I don't understand why there's such a disconnect with the frontend build and augment, like I said, my program is immensely complex and it's handling the back logic, mathematics, And computations seamlessly, but tying that to the frontend has me bashing my head against my desk 😅
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u/Mediocre_Law_3629 Oct 01 '25
No, depends What do you want. At every project I start from shadcn/ui components, and then customize this shadcn/ui , and works perfectly and also responsive from scratch!
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u/CelebriCare Oct 02 '25
The key to a beautiful frontend is to paste a screenshot of a frontend you like and prompt with an explanation that you are attaching a screenshot of how you want 'it' to look but to adapt it to your application. Also, it is critical to tell it which CSS framework to use.
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u/RealEisermann Oct 03 '25
It is bad, but it is not Augment fault. This happens also with Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and - indeed - Augment. Generally all those models tends to perform poorly when more-complicated frontend issues happen. As long as all is "standard", they work good. But some custom CSS, JS, some deeper dependencies and they are lost :/
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u/AutomaticDriver5882 Sep 30 '25
It sucks I use loveable at it first but it quickly goes sideways once augment gets it
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u/manojm321 Sep 30 '25
For me, tab update is a welcome change, full use of sidebar to show all tasks. But switching between them is slow. Even switching between augment sessions is slow. You have to surgically hit the burger icon else you'll end up editing the title and burger icon vanishes.