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How Far Are We From Automating Front-End Engineering?
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Hi Reader, This week I stumbled upon a very interesting edition of the Frontend at Scale newsletter. It mentions a research paper titled Design2Code: How Far Are We From Automating Front-End Engineering?. As the title implies, the researchers let different artificial intelligence tools build a frontend implementation from a mockup. Here's the winner: Not perfect by any means, but damn close. The newsletter goes into this study in detail, and finishes with a great roundup of the state of AI tools in development. Whether you see yourself as a builder, designer, or developer, I really encourage you to read the entire newsletter. And if you want to learn more about AI in general, I recommend listening to the How Does AI Actually Work? episode on the Waveform podcast. Because while I'm not in a panic about these developments, I still agree with this take: So we shouldn’t think of Devin and other AI coders as our enemies, it's better to think of them as our new best friends. We should spend time with these tools and learn as much as we can from them. In the years to come, learning to be productive with Devin and its friends might play a role in our careers as important as our ability to write code. Cheers, |
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