Will AI replace the front-end Developer?

People always talking on how AI will be replacing a lot of manual labor and processes by intelligently automating scenarios. But will AI take the next step and transform what we think is highly complex - things that only humans could handle?

What I am thinking is somehow make sense of putting two relatively distant terms such as AI and Front-end development together. Just thought what is the possibility of a merger in these two vastly different topics.

How AI can help in frontend development

Will AI replace the front end dev

In the first part, I went over technologies such as Tensorflow.js - where the developer can run, re-train and create AI models on the front end itself and went on about a few good pre-trained models that Tensorflow already provides:

https://medium.com/tensorflow/tagged/bodypix

https://medium.com/tensorflow/text-classification-using-tensorflow-js-an-example-of-detecting-offensive-language-in-browser-e2b94e3565ce

Now coming to the title question. Will AI replace the front-end developer?

To answer this question, have a look at this article: https://blog.floydhub.com/turning-design-mockups-into-code-with-deep-learning/

It's my opinion that we would probably not replace the frontend developer with AI, but probably be more of a helping hand to them. Especially with models like pix2code, we can easily at least create HTML code so that the dev can focus on animations and scripts. But what if even that can be replaced with AI one day? Let's find out!