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gibbitzyesterday at 10:28 PM3 repliesview on HN

Tailwind is the latest bootstrap. These frameworks were designed to allow people with no skill in design/UI to produce something that passed for attractive. Since most clients are more concerned about time and cost than quality and originality, this approach effectively killed bespoke landing pages and led a lot of UI devs to move away from hand-coding styles to glomming on class names and using a "best practice" framework even though they were capable of writing the CSS from scratch. Now LLMs have trained on this boring cookie-cutter UI work so no one should be surprised that this is what comes out.


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JimsonYangtoday at 4:37 AM

Bingo! People mustve forgotten about the bootstrap era

avindragtoday at 12:40 AM

> Tailwind is the latest bootstrap

Bootstrap ships components. AFAIK you need another library if you want that in Tailwind.

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crooked-vtoday at 3:22 AM

Writing CSS from scratch sucks. I'm glad we've left those days far behind.

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