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Between Tailwind and LLM generation I doubt I'll ever write more than a handful of CSS lines by hand in any future project I work on. CSS has, for me, become li

Between Tailwind and LLM generation I doubt I'll ever write more than a handful of CSS lines by hand in any future project I work on. CSS has, for me, become like the ASM output of the compilers I use. The result is good enough 99.999% of the time for me and I want to work at a higher level of abstraction.

OsrsNeedsf2P 2y ago
The downvoted comment is correct. The only CSS I've used in the last couple years has been to debug issues Claude couldn't resolve - and to delete excess styling that wasn't being applied anywhere. It has given me the flexibility, accuracy, scalability, and proved the test of time (going strong on 3 years)
Boltgolt 2y ago
Interesting, I can type CSS much much quicker than describing to an LLM what kind of layout I want and with what look
- noelwelsh 2y ago
  I find LLMs are best for creating the template, or filling in gaps of my knowledge. Examples: 1. Using a prompt like "Using Tailwind, create a three column layout with main content in the center column and smaller side columns for ancillary information" will generate HTML + CSS faster than I can type. 2. I use the LLM to generate some CSS styling for setting a background blur, which was something I hadn't done before using Tailwind. It created code faster than I could find things in the documentation, though I had to go and patch it up later. In essence it pointed me in the right direction. If I'm looking at a preview and want to change the styling of a particular element it is usually faster to directly edit it myself than get an LLM to do that. Tailwind makes this faster as the CSS is right there on HTML; I don't have to switch between stylesheet and HTML.
  - skydhash 2y ago
    1. I’ve mostly gone to the grid section of the docs of whatever framework I’m using (bulma these days) and copy paste the example, then copy paste my own code when I have enough pages done. > Tailwind makes this faster as the CSS is right there on HTML; I don't have to switch between stylesheet and HTML. I mostly use the web inspector for live edits to get a feel then I copy over the final result to the sheet. For more complex components, I use Codepen.

OsrsNeedsf2P 2y ago

The downvoted comment is correct. The only CSS I've used in the last couple years has been to debug issues Claude couldn't resolve - and to delete excess styling that wasn't being applied anywhere. It has given me the flexibility, accuracy, scalability, and proved the test of time (going strong on 3 years)

Boltgolt 2y ago

Interesting, I can type CSS much much quicker than describing to an LLM what kind of layout I want and with what look

noelwelsh 2y ago
I find LLMs are best for creating the template, or filling in gaps of my knowledge. Examples: 1. Using a prompt like "Using Tailwind, create a three column layout with main content in the center column and smaller side columns for ancillary information" will generate HTML + CSS faster than I can type. 2. I use the LLM to generate some CSS styling for setting a background blur, which was something I hadn't done before using Tailwind. It created code faster than I could find things in the documentation, though I had to go and patch it up later. In essence it pointed me in the right direction. If I'm looking at a preview and want to change the styling of a particular element it is usually faster to directly edit it myself than get an LLM to do that. Tailwind makes this faster as the CSS is right there on HTML; I don't have to switch between stylesheet and HTML.
- skydhash 2y ago
  1. I’ve mostly gone to the grid section of the docs of whatever framework I’m using (bulma these days) and copy paste the example, then copy paste my own code when I have enough pages done. > Tailwind makes this faster as the CSS is right there on HTML; I don't have to switch between stylesheet and HTML. I mostly use the web inspector for live edits to get a feel then I copy over the final result to the sheet. For more complex components, I use Codepen.