"Within three years, deep learning will change front-end development. It will increase prototyping speed and lower the barrier for building software."

-- This is an article that somewhat breathlessly claims that AI will be the thing plugging the "last mile" problem in the coding of the front end.

I think myself and other other folks chiming in here would be less skeptical if this "last mile" problem hadn't existed since the 90s. And moreover, it seems like a conventional solution to this should work.

The problem is that last-mile, best front-code varies not based on the input image but on a multitude of contexts outside of the image itself - the server software, how the code will be used, etc.

I'd say this is indeed a problem for AI but it would require a distinct paradigm than the present train/test/output paradigm, more like a expert system that could modify it's behavior with natural language output.