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But without the complexity that layers of abstraction create, Snapchat would only have 1 person working on buttons instead of 400.

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It's amazing how much developer time is wasted writing components. I have to imagine that these jobs are at risk of being disrupted by AI though. If AIs can create designs, then they should also be able to convert design specifications into mostly-complete components. Expect the tech to exist by 2025 and disruption to component developer employment within a couple years.

You can use GPT-V to create functional components from images directly:

There was an open source project (https://github.com/abi/screenshot-to-code) that I borrowed the prompt from and made a custom GPT for myself where I just drag and drop the image. It’s not perfect but it’s pretty great overall!

Here are the prompts: https://github.com/abi/screenshot-to-code/blob/main/backend/...

The hard part is usually not getting the component to look like the design but rather the fun process of discovering all the interactions nobody thought about while they were focused on pretty pictures

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