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Comment by Brendinooo

2 days ago

As a front-of-the-frontend guy, I think it's terrible with CSS and SVG and just okay with HTML.

I work at a shop where we do all custom frontend work and it's just not up to the task. And, while it has chipped in on some accessibility features for me, I wouldn't trust it to do that unsupervised. Even semantic HTML is a mixed bag: if you point out something is a figure/figcaption it'll probably do it right, but I haven't found that it'll intuit these things and get it right on the first try.

But I'd imagine if you don't care about the frontend looking original or even good, and you stick really closely to something like tailwind, it could output something good enough.

And critically, I think a lot of times the hardest part of frontend work is starting, getting that first iteration out. LLMs are good for that. Actually got me over the hump on a little personal page I made a month or so ago and it was a massive help. Put out something that looked terrible but gave me what I needed to move forward.