Comment by tainttickler
2 days ago
No you don't understand, AI is VERY BAD at front-end and CSS to the point you cannot use anything.
It's not passable even slightly.
Everybody with experience knows that FE has always been "harder" than BE - but BE the stakes are higher since it's the business. FE is often "just UI" and despite that being very important too, you can throw it away and start over a lot easier with a UI than you can with a BE platform.
I digress, AI sucks fucking dick at UI.
You overestimate how good the average front-end developer PR is that gets merged.
My experience developing on a fairly standard SAAS is that AI (Figma, Claude) has produced UIs which look better, are more accessible, and get through review and QA and product approval, faster and more reliably than any of the FE developers I've worked with recently can.
Google Stitch is pretty awesome at front end layouts.
What is an example UI that AI would fail to create?