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WHY AI SUCKS AT FRONT END

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Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

AI is great at scaffolding generic, unoriginal UI, but falls apart the moment you need bespoke interactions, pixel-perfect layouts, or accessibility. The root causes are that it's trained on outdated CSS, can't actually see what it renders, and doesn't understand architectural reasoning.