I’m Kitty Giraudel, a transfeminine web engineer based in Berlin, focused on accessibility and inclusivity.

Kitty Giraudel is a frontend developer and CSS enthusiast known for her expertise in web design and front-end development. Readers can learn about CSS techniques, web typography, and responsive design. With articles, tutorials, and demos, Kitty Giraudel shares  insights and techniques for creating beautiful and accessible web experiences.

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Cursor AI can rapidly bootstrap React applications and handle initial setup tasks much faster than manual coding, but struggles with code quality, component architecture, and creative UI design. The tool tends to create monolithic components with poor logic encapsulation, duplicated code, and limited reusability. While it excels at generating B2B dashboard-style interfaces, it lacks creativity for custom designs and requires significant manual refinement. Best results come from giving narrow, precise tasks rather than broad directives, particularly around component reusability and logic separation.

Cursor for UI work

I think if you create rules for you Frontend Engineer Agent it will help get code closer to what you desire. It’s only a matter of tweaking the temperature. Thanks for the read!

Nice read – I’d like to see what a more detailed prompt would end up producing. I don’t use AI like this but I could already tell from the prompt that it was going to be a fun battle!