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0 pointsiagooar9mo ago0 comments

It is true AI-generated UIs tend to be... Weird. In weird ways. Sometimes they are consistent and work as intended, but often times they reveal weird behaviors.

Or at least this was true until recently. GPT-5 is consistently delivering more coherent and better working UIs, provided I use it with shadcn or alternative component libraries.

So while you can generate a lot of code very fast, testing UX and UI is still manual work - at least for me.

I am pretty sure, AI should not run the show. It is a sophisticated tool, but it is not a show runner - not yet.

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wahnfrieden9mo ago

Nothing much weird about the SwiftUI UIs GPT-5-codex generates for me. And it adapts well to building reusable/extensible components and using my existing components instead of constantly reinventing, because it is good at reading a lot of code before putting in work.

It is also good at refactoring to consolidate existing code for reusability, which makes it easier to extend and change UI in the future. Now I worry less about writing new UI or copy/pasting UI because I know I can do the refactoring easily to consolidate.

odie55339mo ago

If you tell it to use a standard component library, the UIs should be mostly as coherent as the library.

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