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Ask HN: LLM struggles to center div too?

4 points divan | 1 comments | 06 Sep 25 15:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.381s | source

I used AI coding agents for the past half a year a lot with Flutter. Recently I had to work on the tailwind web project, and I was surprised how often it gets layout/UI wrong. Even with puppeteer attached, haveing access to raw HTML output and screenshots, it's still struggles to do simple alignment, centering things.

In a way, it mirrors famouse "centering div in css" challenge, but I wonder if it's the same experience for other people who work with web stack more often.

1. sky2224 ◴[07 Sep 25 06:42 UTC] No.45155929[source]▶
Been using Claude Sonnet 4 for a web app that's using React, Mantine, Vite, and a NoSql db.

Frankly, it's been incredible. The app is not complicated by any means. It's a really simple CRUD app for tracking animals (what farm animals are on, breeds, medical history, birthing schedule, etc.), but when I've provided mockups, it's done a surprisingly good job to at least get me 80%-90% of the way there.

I think it has to do with my tech stack honestly. Well built components can get an individual developer with poor FE experience quite far. I think it's the same for AI as well at this point.