...Does AI suck at front-end? This is news to me.
Why AI Sucks at Front End
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Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End
#32Sure, but most companies don't seem to value Front End
Really? Front End is the customer-facing part of the web site. It's also the part of the stack, that non-technical people, including management, have opinions on. Or do you mean something else?
They might have opinions about it, but look at the pay for frontend engineers at the same company. It's not uncommon to see the same seniority be 20% lower than a backend role.
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#33Who says it sucks at front end? Unlike Stackoverflow, AI does a great job of "center a div." I tend to like working from reference documentation which is great for Python and Java but challenging for CSS where you have to navigate roughly 50 documents that relate to each other in complex ways to find answers. Like I don't give it 100% responsibility for front end tasks but I feel like working together with AI I feel…
I still struggle with the design, but once that's locked in getting it to implement things is pretty straightforward. I do have to fight the AI a bit to make sure things are simple and clean, but it's pretty good at that with the right hand-holding.
The design is still a problem though, precisely because I am not a designer. I don't know what's actually good, I only know what's good enough for me. I can't tell the difference between "this is actually good" and "this is vibe-designed slop" but I have enough experience to at least make sure the implementation is robust.
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#34double down on betting your career on being a css expert? what could go wrong
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#35AI is much better at front-end than me, it has really enabled me to build visual apps as a normally backend/ML guy.
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#36Ngl I’m reading this article after having used ai to build a beautiful front end that is pixel perfect.
Yes ai can’t see, it only understands numbers. So tell it to use image magick to compare the screenshot to the actual mockup, tell it to get less than 5% difference and don’t use more than 20% blur. Thank me later.
I built a whole website in like 2 days with this technique.
Everyone seems to have trouble telling ai how to check its work and that’s the real problem imho.
Truly if you took the best dev in the world and had them write 1000 lines of code without stopping to check the result they would also get it wrong. And the machine is only made in a likeness of our image.
PS. You think Christian god was also pissed at how much we lie? :)
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#37If you are really good at something, you'll find AI sucks at everything.
Before I switched over the a career in tech, I made my living from music - playing live, session work, etc. Honestly, I'm probably one of the biggest skeptics when it comes to GenAI - but at least for music, the recent models (as in the past year) do not suck. They are actually really, really good for what it is. I have yet to hear anything truly original produced by those models. They seem to converge to the mean, a…
> They seem to converge to the mean
I think that was the point being made; if you're looking at it from the perspective of being really good at something, its tendency towards an averaged result is substandard.
Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End
#38If you are really good at something, you'll find AI sucks at everything.
Before I switched over the a career in tech, I made my living from music - playing live, session work, etc. Honestly, I'm probably one of the biggest skeptics when it comes to GenAI - but at least for music, the recent models (as in the past year) do not suck. They are actually really, really good for what it is. I have yet to hear anything truly original produced by those models. They seem to converge to the mean, a…
Rather than an existential threat, I could see it becoming it's own genre rather than infecting every other genre - when in the future people collectively realise it's kinda bad but has it's place as an almost retro aesthetic.
Our idea of nostalgia was not that long ago. Also it could be generated on open weight local copyright free models that are super efficient in the future :P
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#39I'm a backend dev and I'm always hearing about how LLMs are dramatically better at frontend because of much more available training data etc. Maybe my perspective isn't as skewed as I've been led to believe and LLMs need close supervision and rework of their output there too.
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