AI Frontend Engineer

Abhirupa writes about designing and building frontends for .

Architecting spaces where AI breathes and thinks alongside humans — the surfaces where agents reason, pause, and hand control back to people.

01The Practice

Interfaces where agents think out loud

Frontend work at Slack for agentic AI — the surfaces where agents reason, pause, and hand control back.

  1. 01GitHub Universe 2026: Lessons That Will Change How Your Team Works With AIEssay→
  2. 02I Overloaded Slack's Job Queue — and What It Taught Me About ScaleEssay→
  3. 03An AI Frontend Engineer's Guide to Building the Best AI-Assisted Coding SetupGuide→
  4. 04Designing for 100M LLM Users: Rebuilding Gemini Chat's Frontend from the Outside InGuide→
  5. 05The Complete AI / MCP Server Setup for 10x Faster Production CodePlaybook→
  6. 06Hosting My Full-Stack Next.js App on Vercel + RenderGuide→
  7. 07Demystifying MCP Servers: The Part No One Explains WellGuide→
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03Design Thinking

A human-centered method for intelligent systems

UI/UX research and process — starting from the person, treating the model as a material.

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05Lab

Live experiments in agentic interface morphology

Working prototypes for agentic AI — interfaces that reveal an agent’s state, confidence, and thinking, beyond loaders and progress bars.

Bench 05 · Agentic interfaces2 specimens · 2 under observation
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Morphology in AI components

Interface states that show what an agent is actually doing.

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Record an LLM stream once, replay it from a URL with its original timing.

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