You Should Skill It: Solving a Year-Old CSS Bottleneck With an AI Skill
A Senior Product Engineer at epilot discusses a persistent CSS issue that was resolved using an AI skill. The problem involved customers struggling with Custom CSS documentation, leading to increased requests for assistance. The engineer previously developed a proof-of-concept AI assistant to generate CSS but initially shelved it due to perceived overkill for the issue at hand.
- ▪The engineer works at epilot, a SaaS company focused on the energy industry.
- ▪They led the redesign of the Journeys design system, creating a new internal React component library called Concorde.
- ▪The Custom CSS feature allowed customers to style their Journeys, but many struggled with the documentation and sought help from the engineering team.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 110375) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Adeola Adeyemo for epilot Posted on May 30 You Should Skill It: Solving a Year-Old CSS Bottleneck With an AI Skill #webdev #ai #productivity #css There's a certain kind of problem that lives rent-free in your head for months. Not urgent enough to drop everything for, but annoying enough that you never quite let it go. This is the story of one of those, and how an AI skill finally gave me the right-sized solution.
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