v0 by Vercel Review: AI-Generated UI Components That Actually Ship

I spent a week generating 35 UI components with v0 by Vercel to understand where it fits in a real development workflow. The tool occupies a narrow but valuable niche: it does not write backend logic, manage state, or replace a frontend engineer. What it does — generating React components with Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui from natural language prompts — it does well enough to change how I approach the early stages of UI work. Here is what 35 generations taught me about where v0 shines and where th...