I spent about 5 hours last night working with Claude AI to help build a web page where it was helping me update a bunch of html/php and css files that it generated itself. The two main pages were a lot fancier than I would have made, but it had a lot of trouble making them look right in all situations. I had it generate a footer with standard pages (Privacy, Terms, About Us, etc.) and while they were all the same layout, I had to go through nearly 2 dozen iterations to make them look decent on all platforms!
I was amazed by the css this thing generated, particularly because I’m horrible with CSS. But I can’t believe how many times we had to keep going over the same things because of one change after another that did not work. If it’s just logic that can be clearly tested, that’s one thing. But AI cannot “see” things; and while we humans can, it’s hard for us to explain visual issues to a mechanism that’s basically blind and cannot even display what it’s doing on the screen. I was viewing this page in several browsers on my desktop, a large iPad, an iPad Mini, and my phone. I’ve gotta say, this crap drives me nuts! I had to keep suggesting ways to fix it and it would sometimes take four or five attempts for it to get it right! I’m no good with css, but I can tell immediately when a change has not altered how the screen looks when it should have changed. The fact that it can’t only makes it go a LOT slower. It would have taken a lot longer for AI to just cycle through a bunch of guesses to fix this if I wasn’t able to guide it to some alternative solutions. I feel bad for people with no tech background relating to UX/UI stuff who have to rely on AI to do these things. The future of UI design assistance with AI is going to have to be done with a WYSIWYG drag-n-drop interface. Maybe that means having AI build it initially and then using a normal web page editor to make changes to the UI. Has anybody here had similar experiences and found a good solution for UI editing with AI’s help? (I have always hated the “look-and-feel” side of software. This is exactly why.) -David Schwartz --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list: PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
