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Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Post by locknitpicker »

BoggleOhYeah wrote: post #30
feverzsj wrote: post #6

If you are really good at something, you'll find AI sucks at everything.

LLMs are just replacing consultants as the #1 generator of sloppy code.

> LLMs are just replacing consultants as the #1 generator of sloppy code.

The "consultants wrote sloppy code" is one of those memes that never die.

The only thing that differentiates consultants from you is the contract type. All broad strokes accusations are just a consequence of in-house employees feeling threatened by their presence and having a vested interest in portraying themselves as infinitely better than any prospective replacement. You also see the same attitude in junior devs who complain that everyone else's code is shit, but the mess they themselves created is always justifiable and understandable.

If you were moved from your project right now and you placed someone at your spot under probation, I will guarantee that your work would be extensively criticized for being an unmaintainable pile of hacks.

Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Post by jeixjejdjwjx »

thejazzman wrote: post #86
bryanhogan wrote: post #85

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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.

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.

Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Post by metaketa »

thejazzman wrote: post #86
bryanhogan wrote: post #85

Earlier 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.

Though it's somewhat clear from the use of tiles with the icon colours and the choice of border colours and all, I quite like it. I would have expected the colour theme from the navbar to be repeated because that's a more non standard palette. I would do that, maybe use a different tile layout (use a tile shape resembling a pool tile? Or even a rectangle signifying a typical pool shape) and create some vector icons for them using the navbar colour scheme.

Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Post by linzhangrun »

bryanhogan wrote: post #87
linzhangrun wrote: post #83

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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…

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Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Post by camillomiller »

thejazzman wrote: post #86
bryanhogan wrote: post #85

Earlier 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.

Well it works but it also looks like every other generic bootstrap based website with not even an original palette choice. Great for a project like this, unusable for any client work

Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Post by dyauspitr »

unfitted2545 wrote: post #65
WarmWash wrote: post #62

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People genuinely believe that a "trust me bro" system of denoting use of AI is viable approach to the problem.

I mean I go to gigs of people I like, it's not hard to work out if someone is real if they're on stage/meeting up with fans afterwards

You could probably put a bunch of AI music out to see what bites and then create a band post AI success that just plays what the AI was playing.

Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Post by bryanhogan »

linzhangrun wrote: post #94
bryanhogan wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

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I mean, there's a fundamental missing understanding of how to build a coherent design, then there's also the problem of just poor implementation such as the animations.

The Lua site has some problems as well, like an uncessary border, text size and spacing, even when it's this minimal. You can get much faster and better results from using or taking inspiration from something like Astro Starlight or UnoCSS

Astro Starlight: https://starlight.astro.build/

UnoCSS: https://unocss.dev/

But of course, I agree that with AI you can create websites much faster, but it doesn't replace the knowledge needed to build a "good website".

Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Post by sixhobbits »

bryanhogan wrote: post #85
khasan222 wrote: post #36

Ngl 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.

I started with a boilerplate but AI has been huge at letting me get what I want in terms of frontend building when I was never talented at design or css.

I built https://bridge.ritza.co (demo@example.com username and password if you don't want to sign up) as a trello/linear replacement without looking at a single line of code and it's both good enough for me and doesn't have the obvious AI frontend 'look' as it was copying from the starter.

Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Post by boron1006 »

sixhobbits wrote: post #98
bryanhogan wrote: post #85

Earlier 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.

I started with a boilerplate but AI has been huge at letting me get what I want in terms of frontend building when I was never talented at design or css. I built https://bridge.ritza.co (demo@example.com username and password if you don't want to sign up) as a trello/linear replacement without looking at a single line of code and it's both good enough for me and doesn't have the obvious AI frontend 'look' as it was c…

> doesn't have the obvious AI frontend 'look' as it was copying from the starter.

Check out the other reply and scroll down a bit…

Re: Why AI Sucks at Front End

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Post by linzhangrun »

bryanhogan wrote: post #97
linzhangrun wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I mean, there's a fundamental missing understanding of how to build a coherent design, then there's also the problem of just poor implementation such as the animations. The Lua site has some problems as well, like an uncessary border, text size and spacing, even when it's this minimal. You can get much faster and better results from using or taking inspiration from something like Astro Starlight or UnoCSS Astro Starl…

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