Ergonomics for hand composition are less relevant now. The most important trait is how does a long-lived project perform when written by a coding agent.

I’m curious if anyone has any takes on the different approaches to agentic styling.

I’ve tried Tailwind for this without further steering, and after a while the agent starts adding unnecessary utility classes everywhere. Then I taught it to micro-Ralph eval all its utility classes using screenshots and this works ok but burns a lot of tokens. Treats the symptom and not the problem IMO.

Maybe with the right set of constraints there’s a subset of Tailwind that composes better? I went back to vanilla CSS for now, on the hope that it will readily port to whatever the best thing ends up being later.