Agreed on AI limitations in originality, but the industry sucked at UIs for so long, my expectations are low. I’m just hoping for widespread use of models that take the viewpoints of newbs for UI testing.
Why AI Sucks at Front End
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#82I don’t 100% agree with the “AI can’t see” because in a Ralph-loop against screenshots, it basically can (inefficiently). But more importantly I do find it generally curious how bad even frontier models are in spatial thinking. Say “Align these right to left unless it crosses the center” or “Keep this box always visible and collapse X to make space” and all hell break loose - maybe it might work but in an extremely slow, costly and tedious process.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s the point in saying you built something beautiful and not showing it? Share it. I used Claude earlier to test out its design capabilities and what I got as output was flat and tasteless.
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.
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#85Ngl 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…
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.
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#86Ngl 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…
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.
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> Just look at the frontend work people made with Claude Code within only a few hours after the Claude Code source leak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597085#47598853
I mean, yes look at the vibe coded sites people made after the second Claude Code leak! They are horrible, there are so many issues with them. Look at the existing comments some people with front-end / design knowledge made there.
Just because bad website existed before AI does not mean we should be happy to pump out more bad websites with AI.
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#88>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?
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Sorry but this website screams AI slop to me. Very sparse, lots of cards and random icons and rounded corners, looks like a few messages in to a Claude code session
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#90If you are really good at something, you'll find AI sucks at everything.
> If you are really good at something, you'll find AI sucks at everything.
I think it's the other way around. AI amplifies your software development skills. If you suck at software development, AI will follow your prompts and feedback and of course it will output an unmaintainable mess that barely works.
Here we are, listening to people who can barely put together a working website complaining that AI can barely put together a working website.