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.
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.