points by jasomill 3 days ago | 0 comments
AI has now made that question mostly irrelevant, since it can generate and rapidly edit vanilla webpages without a framework to make the DX better.
Not consistently over time it can't — at least not the usual LLM-as-a-service suspects, which don't even guarantee the model you use today will function identically tomorrow — unless you use it to create your own static site generator, which may or may not make sense depending on whether existing, battle-tested tools don't already fit the bill.
Claude seems better at frontend dev work than at any other category of task. It’s far better than the last senior frontend dev I worked with.