Practical Strategies for Using LLMs in UI Development: Avoiding Starting from Scratch
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Summary
The article discusses practical strategies for using Large Language Models (LLMs) in UI development, emphasizing the importance of not starting from scratch. The key approach involves cloning existing code that you like, using screenshots to bootstrap code, and building a reference component collection. Once you have working code, LLMs can maintain consistency with your established patterns. The article also mentions that understanding design terminology helps in better steering the AI development process.
Key quotes
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If you have something you already like and code is available, clone it and point the agent to the code.
Once you have something that works, your agent will be pretty good at being consistent with whatever you're going for and UI will be a 'solved problem' from then on.
Just point it to your reference code, and you can build up a component collection for the next thing if you like.
As a distant second, becoming familiar with design terminology allows you to steer better.
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