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LOVE IT! So true.

Dead Internet theory but it's just progressively shittier ui

To-do lists, you forgot Todo lists!

Watch me spend 5hrs and open 16 tabs worth of research just for a tiny part of an app. The end result will be sick. I've yet to see the kind of talent and intuition needed in any of these systems. They're inherently limited by their capabilities, which are implemented by programmers, not designers.

Ah this is refreshing. Someone using LLMs as a scalpel and not a sledgehammer.

Yep, I pretty much have to have a solid idea myself of where I want the code to be going at any given point. The AI just helps write all the boilerplate.

I came in to scream... but than read again and now cant stop laughing... best take!

Update : it appears you can have a front end website , and an admin panel for users. You can’t actually have users or a user panel .. I wanted a site showing all the local farmers using API key and allowing farmers to register .. looks like it’s working and then error loop on allowing creation .

Couple gotchas being it won't get better until a human actually rewrites it, and again, it's awful. For me (and I suspect others) getting shitty code that barely works is ok for that.

The amount of people easily swayed by a paper thin LLM-powered demo is unfortunately high.

HTML has a bunch of complexity predicated on the (wrong) assumption that the same code could work on several devices with different characteristics.

True, but I wasn't talking about HTML. My main experience is with trying to pick up game/desktop app programming again now that I have the free time, after far too long away. In that space, every design tool I've tried thus far is a confusing, under-documented mess.

amen bsky.app/profile/jhey...

That is actually true for most LLM powered things 😂

beyondloom.com/decker/

No we should do that. In React. So we’re cool

This is so real 😭

big things are coming to the medium of UI design… big things!!!! (based on everyone’s previous work)

Haha, a total recursive loop! It's basically the "dog eating its own tail" of the dev world. Truly meta.

LLMs in general are incredible for demos

Please post a few examples and the prompt.

But one of the trends I listed (CASE Tools) was pre-Web, so the fascination with programmerless programming predates that observation.

My personal observation, which might or might not extend to the industry at large: the frontend is considered "easy" and it is where junior devs are assigned until they "graduate" and move to where "big boys" play: the backend. So only the most committed stay and become senior frontend devs.

Best take, so fat!

LLMCeption

Frontend dev is already so hard for me, and these tools make it even more frustrating. They're great for quick demos or a single-page todo app, but trying to create a consistent user experience with them? Absolute nightmare. Feels like asking them to actually help is too much.

That works up to a point. And that point is somewhere between demo and MVP. Plenty for personal websites, no doubt.

CSS > LLMs (in my experience, which is not small in this context).

Nah man, V0 is amazing for getting an initial scaffold of what you’re looking for. Tweak & add functionality afterwards in Cursor.

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I love all the ads where they ask the LLMs to do things and then they totally do it right. Yep. That chatgpt totally knows how to fix your car, just keep talking to it, car will be fixed in no time flat.

Hey leave Vercel marketing department alone Wait I think that’s basically all of Vercel

fr in my job im supposed to show how copilot works and i just show random slop n then everyone claps.

I agree it’s almost becoming recursive

william basinski (@musex1.bsky.social ) prefigured this with the disintegration loops

Sounds like a fun experiment. 😆 What if our world is just something like a v0 simulation. That would explain so much 😂