[nickreese]

I've been using AI models to do frontend design and candidly this doesn't hold a candle to just working directly with the base models.

With the base models you can ask: Hey, make me 5 designs that fit xyz requirements and it will go to work. If you already know front end design, you can take that up a level and pass it an emmet abbreviation of the rough code you want and say only use tailwind colors of sky, zinc, and blue.

I am decidedly not your audience, but if anyone on HN is thinking about how to speed up frontend dev and they are a frontend dev, I'd suggest just messing with the base models more.

Once you get the hang of it, it can be like working with a designer who's feelings don't get hurt... which I love.

"Meh, I don't like those designs, generate me 5 more and feel free to increase the model's temperature up quite a bit to see if you can come up with something cool."

[runnr_az]

I'm not really sure what you mean by "base models?"

[nickreese]

Claude, GPT, Llama3.1 directly. The models are really capable if you prompt correctly.

[punkspider]

They're likely referring to using the large language models (GPT, Claude, etc.) through their primary interfaces, because you get more control by interacting with the LLM directly.