Human coders are still better than LLMs

Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by jaccola on Thursday May 29, 2025 @01:33PM (#44128259)

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.

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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by danielbln on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:47PM (#44128979)

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.

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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by karn97 on Thursday May 29, 2025 @07:49PM (#44131480)

Still terrible result. Multi modal = actually understands the image

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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by presentation on Friday May 30, 2025 @12:24AM (#44132821)

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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