Heather Buchel

I wrote down some thoughts about the current trend of calling AI-generated UIs "innovative" and exaggerating their ability to create production ready code.

The TLDR is we've been here before and it doesn't feel new.

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2023/09/ai-generated-ui-is-not-innovative/

We're still not innovating with AI-generated UI.

We continue to not solve the same problems that we largely conjured out of no where.

Sep 15, 2023 at 4:21pmWeb
Show threadMatthew PhillipsSep 15, 2023
@hbuchel Loved this article.
Show threadPeter Saathoff-HarshfieldSep 15, 2023
@hbuchel I agree with and feel this so much. I really wanted to make the same points in a meeting yesterday and had to hold my tongue.
Show threadHeather BuchelSep 15, 2023
@pesh It's definitely easier in this public forum to be more vocal about things I wish were different.
Show threadDawn AhukannaSep 16, 2023

@hbuchel

AI (statistical inference) is enabling more people to use computing power by having spoken language-based conversation that produces a digital outcome with relevance between 0-100%.
This is augmentation, as it requires expertise to review & eventually produce a digital outcome with a relevance of 95% or more. It’s not full automation, that is always 100% relevant.

Wishfully using augmenting tech & removing core expert humans is not going to meet expectations. That’s fantasy!

Show threadDawn AhukannaSep 17, 2023
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@kellogh yeah if I linked things it would be easier : https://www.felienne.com/archives/6761 and https://www.felienne.com/archives/6589 More about auto graders and scratch than gpt per se but aligns with what I’m telling people I mentor, who are often overwhelmed by the amount of tutorials and best practices and this and that that they forget to build things for themselves with all the things they learn. it’s a bit disheartening that this is what the abundance of learning material leads to, compared to: c64! Yolo!

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Show threadThomasorusSep 16, 2023

@hbuchel I think we should reframe accessibility work as frontend tech debt.

Maybe vercel/react nerds can empathize with accessibility devs if they imagined how it would feel to exclusively work on tech debt everyday.

Nah kidding, react/vercel nerds are probably libertarian/silicon valley dick suckers that cannot empathize with anything if it doesn't happen to them.

Show threadН0ИG ̶K̶O̶N̶G̶Sep 19, 2023

@hbuchel IME the impact isn't so much on the practitioners' work directly, but rather in a roundabout fashion through the management decisions to cut costs and staff.

Enterprise sales will knock on VPs and other executives' doors to get them to buy into the idea that generated designs are of comparable quality to properly researched, designed, and developed interfaces.