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Zach Leatherman: AI-generated websites fail performance and accessibility tests

Developer responses highlight AI-generated code bloat and poor quality

Comments on Leatherman's post illustrate frustration with AI output, with developers describing bloated code generation and reliability concerns.

Developer responses highlight AI-generated code bloat and poor quality
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“AI: *replaces four lines of semantic HTML with 80 megabytes of div soup, three hallucinated npm packages, and a loader that spins forever*”

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Zach Leatherman Web developer, Font Awesome builder, creator of Eleventy

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