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started to work on this cool project, cool client, all fullstack developers on it, only me is just FE on the project (I am also architect, devops, backend, db admin, even designer sometimes etc. on other projects, but they wanted someone who will focus on FE and now i see why, to shovel the shit fullstacks made).

we have issues so i take a look and find ton of cases where people were just reinventing the wheel, like calculating image sizes and place them in the middle without bleeds on any side, absolutely positioned and then centered etc.

so i deleted this 500-ish lines of utility functions and just used object-fit:cover and object-position: center instead. I mean WT actual F!

so dear fullstack developers, if you don't want to learn the CSS then you are just backend developers who knows jack shit on the frontend. F you very much!!!

also F you for reinventing the wheel with this JS monster instead using 2 CSS declarations instead!

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  • 2
    14d
    Yeah, I also sell myself whatever depended on mood but my css is terrible. God thanks llm's.

    I really don't see the point anymore of front end frameworks with AI being so wel with native web components (as ecma modules) and CSS. Sure, there are levels of CSS but when it works fine on every device I'm happy.

    I'm very interested how the future will look like with all AI code. It made my overall quality a lot better but my llm's are customized as F to program as I do. I try to tell everyone how the global AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md / GEMINI.md works and custom slash commands to keep your project in shape and prevent the spaghetti llm's normally produces but no one cares but do complain tho.

    If the future will be OK is not depended on llm's, but in programmers. I have more faith in the vibe coder that knows what it does than the programmer that refuses to take learning AI serious.
  • 0
    14d
    Yes indeed. This is what you get with bad upper management.
  • 2
    14d
    @whimsical > 'I have more faith in the vibe coder that knows what it does than the programmer that refuses to take learning AI serious.'.

    Let's look at it from a different angle, though. Consider a programmer that is good at his job rejects using LLMs because he just likes writing code himself.

    /* Though, a _bad_ programmer oblivious to his inadequacies would surely produce some garbage, so an LLM could be better than that guy. */
  • 1
    12d
    All in all, I would probably be fine with whatever CSS LLM spitted out if they just asked, but it seems that they didnt even do that!
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