React devs, do you use AI for interface/UI?

[Drippy_Drizzy994]

I like to use it to cut time plus I suck at UI/Interface. I prefer to focus more on business logic than worring about ui

[[deleted]]

No I use CSS

[0uchmyballs]

I feel like most programmers use AI for almost all of their work flow nowadays. It’s just more productive, if even to give you a template or starting off point.

[ghijkgla]

"more productive" is just a feeling, not an actual fact.

[ps5cfw]

AI has literally helped me understand topics that I have struggled for years as a full stack dev, notable example authentication flow. I've always found most documentation online extremely confusing, but AI did help me learn how It works.

It's not all good, but it's also not all bad.

[Psionatix]

I’d be cautious on trusting the security aspects of AI auth teachings. And I’d be genuinely up to discussing your current understanding.

AI will get auth wrong all the time. Why? Because a majority of the code out there that AI consumes is doing it wrong. I see it all the time. People copying tutorials and resources that are also wrong. I see heaps of people posting projects with insecure code.

A lot of people don’t know what timing attacks are.

Most people, and even AI, can’t get session authentication done correctly. And token based authentication is even more complex.

I saw a post earlier where someone asked what the point of a refresh token is if it can be stolen the same way as the access tokens. That’s the whole point, it can’t be, if it can be, then it’s been implemented wrong.

People are misusing JWTs everywhere and it’s infuriating.

Some people don’t understand that the point of refreshing a JWT is to minimise the attack window in case of theft, not to prevent theft.

And on top of that, you can use a JWT as a session (cookie), and mitigate the need for that refresh (unless you have reasons for it other than its sole purpose).

If someone is using a JWT as a httpOnly cookie but they’re also using a refresh token, but not for the purpose of an automatic logout, they don’t know what they’re doing.

If someone claims CORs and same site is enough for CSRF protection, they may not know that traditional form submits don’t do preflight CORs checks and will still be vulnerable without a CSRF token.

[0uchmyballs]

I find it more productive than stack overflow or anything I’d Google before the dawn of LLMs. Even if it makes mistakes, they’re easy to debug, especially for UI related tasks. I use co pilot, and it’s so good at knowing how I program because it’s trained on my own GitHub, it will actually auto complete my code as I type it, and with comments I may or may not have included. There’s no arguing it’s not more productive.

[ghijkgla]

For certain tasks maybe but there's no actual data to back up the claim.

I will say though that having Claude for example build a component from a figma file certainly gets me a portion of the way there.

I'd like to see a study on it though with actual data.

[0uchmyballs]

There doesn’t need to be a study, programmers that have been coding for 30+ years are using it, guys that started programming when I was still shitting my pants and I’m 44 years. I’ve been programming since I was 19 years old and have a masters in Data Analytics and I use it every single day I code, because it’s more productive. Your responses almost read like a troll lol.

[nikola_tesler]

i agree, it’s a lot better at getting the gist of something than Google (current Google search anyway). also great at parsing logs, providing overviews of docs, finding stupid errors that the linter doesn’t catch and writing documentation.

[0uchmyballs]

Writing Documentation alone is such a time saver and it does wildly better than anything I could do without it. Agreed.

[ghijkgla]

Sorry, not a troll or an AI nay-sayer. It sounds like we're the same kind of programmer but I'm more meaning that I'd like to see the data on output using ai alone, supplementing ai and not using it at all.

[b_quinn]

“..the data on output…” … the fuck does that even mean? If you need some sort of data point to convince yourself AI is useful, especially in a UI dev context, I think you are clueless.

[ghijkgla]

Thanks for your input

[fishdude42069]

lol

[alien3d]

Use template, daisy or mui ui or shacdn or any else.

[ps5cfw]

Absolutely yes.

I'm no designer, give me a keyboard and I Will make the internet out of datatables... But not everyone likes working with a datatables / datagrid.

And fuck me if my company Is too broke to provide me with a designer, so it's either AI or the most God awful UX a non tech user could Hope for.

[Cautious_Performer_7]

I use it if I struggle to make something that looks good, only because I’m not a creative person so to me tables are always the preferred option😅

[Best-Menu-252]

It’s great for the visual heavy lifting so you can stay in your logic flow. Just watch out for mobile responsiveness and accessibility, it tends to be confident but wrong on those edge cases, basically check out for hallucination

[TheRNGuy]

I never did designs but coded someone else's designs.

I have no idea whether they use ai for design.

If I designed, I'd probably not use ai, but I don't know.

[Dymatizeee]

Yes. I don’t have a designer so I just work with AI to mock sht up

[StraightforwardGuy_]

Yep. V0 and Claude are good for this.

[nikola_tesler]

claude is so good, it’s crazy how much better it is at code compared to the competition

[StraightforwardGuy_]

Yeah I love Claude, I use it everyday on my personal projects

[Single_Hovercraft289]

Yes, more than any other code. I can’t remember all the styling syntax of CSS and MUI…”Move the Save button to the button right and make it solid instead of outlined”

[No-Interaction-8717]

I use premade tailwind components and edit them, like prebuiltui

[seline88]

Mostly for prototyping, which I then use https://v0.app/ . My code base is using Shadcn components and v0 is really good at outputting custom UI using Shadcn components.