I love that we have this on one hand and me cleaning up catastrophic CSS made by Sol on the other. Then again, maybe CSS is the ultimate benchmark.

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thickclearglass 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Codex has a very bad system prompt which no one at OpenAI is seemingly aware of.

Sol frontend is perfectly serviceable if you use it from something like Pi.

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cwmoore 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I do not know the whole picture, but if you are asking for blind one-shot CSS, you might benefit from wiring the model to take screenshots of various end-browsers and discuss them as you iterate.

Offering freelance estimates for CSS design changes before frameworks were around was a problem.

	▲	techpression 23 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I actually have very detailed specifications around the CSS, the problem is that LLM's are trained mostly on codebases with high amounts of complexity so they like to create layer of abstractions that only make your codebase much harder to reason about, machine and man alike. This is very visible in CSS, where almost every single thing automatically becomes a component wrapping the CSS (be it React or LiveView in my case), which is very often meaningless because the CSS itself is the component.

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baq 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

CSS is the reason I refuse to do any frontend work except FE infra and I know I’m not alone here, soooo yes I guess?