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I've found LLMs particularly bad for anything beyond basic styling since the effects can be quite hard to describe and/or don't have a universal description.

Also, there are often times multiple ways to achieve a certain style and they all work fine until you want a particular tweak, in which case only one will work and the LLM usually gets stuck in one of the ones that does not work.




Multi modal LLMs to the rescue. Throw a screenshot or mockup in there and tell the LLM "there, like this". Gemini can do the same with videos.


Still terrible result. Multi modal = actually understands the image


Also tends to write CSS where if you actually have opinions about what good CSS is, is clearly an abomination. But most engineers don’t really care about that.




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