V0 – finally found a good use case!

I'm constantly evaluating the new AI tools for what is going to help me the most in my toolchain. V0 was one that I hadn't quite figured out yet.

Production - no

I haven't found it very effective in producing code I would even consider using in production. It's not that it's producing bad code but it just take considerable effort to move the code from V0 into our codebase, refactor and have it be usable.

Demos - yes

But I think I found where it may fit in quite nicely to my coding life.

I was recently trying to understand position sticky better. I'm working on some complex scroll-driven animations and I wanted to understand the ins-and-outs of position sticky so that I could build some reusable components.

I asked Clause and ChatGPT, which gave satisfactory answer, but I wasn't able to ever run the code instantly to see if what they built was useful.

However, V0 built me an example with visual explanations of how it works.

It was great! I could now visually see exactly what was happening as it happened.

I'll definitely be looking to V0 more in the future for creating visual demonstrations of how things work. Next I'll have to see if it can build be Storybook stories right off the bat so I don't have to convert so much.