AI-Driven CSS Refactoring: When Generated Styles Surprise You

AI-powered CSS refactoring tools can break your carefully crafted grid, animations, or page load speed due to their assumptions about your markup and runtime behavior. These tools use heuristics or learned patterns to refactor CSS, targeting performance by reducing selector specificity, minimizing repaint and reflow triggers, and consolidating styles. However, their changes can surprise you and require manual fixing. To use these tools effectively, spot their changes and verify their impact on your project before applying them. If you're unsure, start with a small test case to ensure the AI tool doesn't break your design.