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b450yesterday at 5:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

Might sound like a rube here, but: is agentic development really this good at novel UIs? The video shows a sort of cassette tape music player, and a fancy looking audio visualizer/equalizer thing. I'm well aware agents are very good at boilerplate UIs, but I wouldn't expect them to be able to one-shot novel, dynamic UI elements like this. I've had Claude attempt some SVG animations and the results were very crude. That was a year or so ago though. Are there established ways of letting agents iterate on UIs, i.e. having them visually verify the visual design and interactions?


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adamtaylor_13today at 2:44 AM

Hooooo, boy, if you haven't used Opus 4.5/4.6, do yourself a favor and check it out. It's pretty good.

My experience has been that Opus consistently generates UIs that are genuinely good. As always with anecdata, YMMV.

There's a reason Tailwind Plus has revenue problems right now.

marcus_holmestoday at 2:05 AM

I had the same results a year ago. Everything has changed since ~Nov 25, give it another go and you'll be surprised