Comment by sroerick
4 hours ago
I totally agree with this. Agents seem tremendously bad at UI to me. Maybe it's just because I am a back end guy.
Right now I'm working on a declarative UI framework which can help me along here. My thought is that if I sacrifice a little control for sane primitives, that will make that spec /build loop easier.
I think ClayUI is a really interesting "reduced instruction set" for UI. I don't know that immediate mode UI is the right call for anything web related (that's how you get React lol) but his reduced primitive layer is very interesting to me
> Right now I'm working on a declarative UI framework which can help me along here
After your first para, I was about to suggest exactly that (well, maybe not writing your own). I find that frameworks (both front-end and back-end) constrain the LLM's choices and result in both sensible defaults and improved consistency.
Of course, you will immediately hit the problem all frameworks have: customer requirements that the framework components don't quite meet.
Still, great for RAD.
Can you elaborate on what frameworks you've used? and how they've helped