I'm not even a front end guy, and have little experience with UI/UX, but its wild how easily decision makers are impressed with UI spit out by an LLM. This era of anybody being able to make a dashboard with Claude Code has made me really appreciate the amount of sweat that designers and devs put into a good user experience.
replyI agree with it being great for OCR, the most impact LLMs have had for me are structured outputs I can call from a function: "extract X value from this ambiguously structured document and return json that can my code can deserialize into Y type." However, how many people are doing something similar and spinning up $500k in GPUs just to avoid writing regex.
They are so bad at UI. I'm not a traditionally trained UI dev, but in the past I've been the solo dev on so many projects that I had to git gud on making at least a clean, functional UI. No crazy animations and "delightful experiences," but I'm skeptical that level of design is necessary for anything outside of consumer apps designed for kids and the child-like. My default, slapped-together UIs for just getting out of the way and getting forward movement are still infinitely better than the inconsistent, buggy, overly decorated UIs the LLMs produce.
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