Commenters debate whether these are AI-specific problems or wider design decay
3 Sep 27 11:25 AM · 1d ago · 5 comments · 1 source · development 3 of 5
The discussion expanded to broader industry trends. tptacek noted that many alignment and design issues are common outcomes of non-designers building frontends, not unique to AI. tensor observed that companies increasingly fire design teams and expect developers to 'wipe up' UIs without standards. docheinestages cited Cloudflare's sloppy redesign as evidence large companies are abandoning design standards.
“Really? I'm more surprised when I see a large company still have design standards. It seems it's all the rage to fire all your UX people and have your devs wipe up a UI because "UI is so easy."”
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People don't realize that you're allowed to tell LLMs/agents "no." In the real world, it's a professional faux pas to question the design of a creative coworker when you may not know design better, but LLMs/agents are not your coworkers.Don't like abuse of serif fonts? "NEVER use serif fonts."Don't like the gaudy color palettes? "Use this color…
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At least some of these are just for lack of caring. I vibe coded this landing page recently https://tui2web.com/ and fought off a lot of the defaults the LLM came up with after a few hours of iteration. Feel free to roast it, I'm not really attached, but I thought it did a reasonably good job.
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More guidance is needed on how to efficiently prompt an LLM to generate a correct UI. Describing the appearance, placement and behavior of UI elements for this is quite time-consuming. The contrast with server-side code generation is stark.
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Your list is missing all caps. I think overuse of all-caps is one of the biggest tells that a ui was vibe coded.People are also weirdly defensive about their use of all-caps.
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It doesn't mention the most annoying tell- content that fades in as you scroll down a page. I'm seeing this everywhere recently and it's so distracting
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They can probably get away with it at this point. Cloudflare already has the name and reputation, so I doubt a sloppy landing page costs them much business.
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