[joe_the_user]

From the article:

"Within three years, deep learning will change front-end development. It will increase prototyping speed and lower the barrier for building software."

-- This is an article that somewhat breathlessly claims that AI will be the thing plugging the "last mile" problem in the coding of the front end.

I think myself and other other folks chiming in here would be less skeptical if this "last mile" problem hadn't existed since the 90s. And moreover, it seems like a conventional solution to this should work.

The problem is that last-mile, best front-code varies not based on the input image but on a multitude of contexts outside of the image itself - the server software, how the code will be used, etc.

I'd say this is indeed a problem for AI but it would require a distinct paradigm than the present train/test/output paradigm, more like a expert system that could modify it's behavior with natural language output.

[haggy]

From what you posted: "It will increase prototyping speed and lower the barrier for building software"

How does that claim that AI will be plugging the last mile problem? That extremely vague statement says only that it will increase prototyping speed and lower the barrier of entry.. neither of which hints at solving the last mile problem.