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At this point I'm just counting on LLMs to remember all the CSS specification cruft for me.

• ileonichwiesz 1y ago
  In my experience LLMs are surprisingly bad at CSS beyond a very basic level. They work fine if you need to change the color of a button, but when it comes to actual styling work, even intermediate stuff like position:absolute or CSS grid, Copilot or even CC default to outputting correct-looking gibberish really quickly.
  • pahbloo 1y ago
    That's telling about CSS design. Folks here on HN are talking about how they purposely ask LLMs about APIs that don't exist, and they hallucinate with a better and more intuitive design that they would come up with on their own. I don't know the best solution for the problem, but CSS is a very convoluted one.
    • TheFuzzball 1y ago
      It could also be that there is a dirth of high quality CSS training data in comparison to JavaScript et al. I wouldn't be surprised if the negative developer sentiment toward CSS is reflected in training datasets.
      • ileonichwiesz 1y ago
        My guess is it’s because CSS is so dependent on context. Especially layout styles only make sense for a specific structure of HTML elements, which might be stored in an entirely different file and directory.