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Why does AI suck at front-end? 🗑️ trained on garbage 👀 it can't see ❓ it doesn't know why 🏞️ no environmental control there's no human v20.2.1 to target. we're a LLM combinatorial explosion ⤷ nerdy.dev/why-ai-sucks...

Exactly pointing out the issues. In my experience it’s great at writing functionality until it gets complex (context loss issue). It’s quite bad at design/visual stuff, despite models understanding “visual stuff” but that’s more Photoshop like visuals, not websites.

I do not think complexity is the issue here, at leat not how we understand it. Models clearly understand the mechanics, also what gets perceived as "good" (or palatable) and they excel at tackling what we think as complexity. Models have no problem holding a whole website in their context.

What I want to point out, what models lack, is what we call intention, motivation, experience through countless failures. They have to derive what we want, what our goal (their mission) is from a few tokens we hand them in the prompt. Therefore the results are fairly impressive IMHO.

If you pay a lot yes, otherwise not. I had it for a couple of big app features/services that they lost context and broke their own previous code in the same session. But we’re not talking about normal websites here but complex services.