it's even worse on backend tasks.
but people writing shitty node.js code might beg to differ.
Why AI Sucks at Front End
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
We built the frontend for https://brooked.io and https://app.brooked.io using only prompting so I agree!
You could argue that what you built isn't novel or complex in any way -- (politely) it's basically a clone of hundreds of other SAAS homepages. i.e. its a perfect use-case for AI. Perhaps the results would be different if you had a specific novel design or interaction in mind, and you wanted the AI to implement that exactly as you wanted. edit: My point proven by the other examples from this thread. Same format, same…
I think it’s ok that it’s similar to other SaaS websites. It wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for LLMs and it gets the job done and looks decent.
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#123Ngl 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…
We built the frontend for https://brooked.io and https://app.brooked.io using only prompting so I agree!
It shows.
The landing page looks like every other AI slopped product page out there.
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#124Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End
#125Ngl 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…
I am a backend guy, so forgive my ignorance, but for web based apps I am confused what "pixel perfect" even means. I can build a site to look one way on my computer, it will most likely not look the same way on whatever device you use to access the site.
Feeding the model images for my local computer sounds like a recipe given my experience with the tools to have it over-optimize for the wrong end device.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Software developers have been calling their stuff "beautiful" for years now. It's bullshit. Almost none of it is beautiful. They just mean it looks like whatever is trendy at the time.
The Skeuomorphic stuff in the late 90s was beautiful.
Is Claude making tasteful and thoughtful recreations today? Or just cloning aesthetics and missing intention?
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Please share what you created! I think people have very different views for what is a good interface, or a tolerable one. I think as a front-end developer and designer I notice a lot of problems most people don't care about.
https://poolometer.com I built this frontend with Sonnet 4.5 last Fall and I’m about to “launch” it I used only prompts, but those prompts included ChatGPT’s research on Memphis design ;) Using codex for front end design is like asking the valedictorian mega nerd to paint your portrait. Gemini and Claude are both artists.
Looks as if AI sucks at frontend tbh.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
We built the frontend for https://brooked.io and https://app.brooked.io using only prompting so I agree!
It shows. The landing page looks like every other AI slopped product page out there.
It’s funny how there are a bunch of responses to this post all showing off their great AI designs that are literally the same thing with different (each horrible) color palettes.
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#129>It's notoriously bad at math, If you are going to criticize LLMs for being out of date, at least make sure your understanding isn't out of date.
Isn’t this still true for the large language models and math is detected and handled by an external tool? Anything you can give as a source for the latest state of the art?
No? I’ve never heard of that tbh.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://poolometer.com I built this frontend with Sonnet 4.5 last Fall and I’m about to “launch” it I used only prompts, but those prompts included ChatGPT’s research on Memphis design ;) Using codex for front end design is like asking the valedictorian mega nerd to paint your portrait. Gemini and Claude are both artists.
Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but no, you did not design a website just fine with AI. It’s not even just “good”. It’s average. Painfully average, to the point of it being easily mistaken for a scam. Very bad results—as expected from an AI. Nothing to brag about here.
Nah