This reads like a script to a Theo video
Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
> PrimeNG had a licensing change recently Both attempts [1] to surface this on HN failed but if you are using a PrimeTek component library you need to be aware of this change. PrimeNG, PrimeReact, and PrimeVue are all going fully closed source and ongoing licencing will be $800 per developer seat in 2027. [2] The previous repos have been archived. [3] PrimeFaces remains open source but it's now developed and maintain…
Well, fuck. Any community forks?
Posted in a sibling comment: https://github.com/openng-org/open-prime
Re: Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just read the post and it didn’t sound AI to me. Would be kind of funny if someone from the team came out and said it was written by a human.
There's not a strong reason for a human to write this type of content anymore
Why should a human read it? And by extension why even bother than if it’s just for machines?
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
> respecting the reader When people say LLM slop is disrespecting the reader, I don't think they are complaining about style.
that's precisely the objection most people have whether they realize it or not. slop just means "I don't like this style" when AI writes more reliably in a way that people do like, they will stop calling everything AI does slop.
I may complain that I don't like the way a sleezy con man talks, and I may be able to detect his communication patterns, but that doesn't mean I want the con man to speak in a different way I can't detect as sleezy. I don't want to talk to the con man.
Obfuscating LLM output to trick the reader into thinking it wasn't LLM output is not respectful.
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#135It’s getting tiring to hear at this point, but the Claude voice comes through clearly in this post, and it’s a little off-putting. If even an important product release doesn’t warrant full human attention, where will we draw the line?
The post effectively communicated what it needed to. It seemed both written and structured in a way that was optimized for human consumption. If they used AI to write this and that gave them more time to volunteer their time towards developing this fantastic piece of open source software, then this all seems like a good thing to me.
The issue is that you can't trust that every word of the message was intentional due to how much Claude will usually add various levels of nonsense, some more obvious some less to your voice or requests. Considering how much Claude alters the meaning of what I want to communicate I wouldn't trust the accuracy of that output right.
And I use Claude a lot, 24/7, but not for things like that. And I appreciate how much it elevates my productivity, but not like this. It usually prioritizes or highlights the wrong things, it overfixates on one thing I said and adds random content there out of nowhere.
So then I can't tell what part of it is slop, how slop, and it becomes impossible to trust.
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#137For boring applications - do people prefer the copy paste approach of shadcn instead of a traditional ui library like mantine? The copy paste approach may be easily modifiable but creates new problems - ie now there is an upgrade ai agent for something that should just be ticking up a version number.
Can you explain what copy paste means here? I use Material UI for all my AI coded applications. Am I doing something wrong? What difference would Shadcnd even make in a world of Claude Code? Isn’t either infinitely customizable via CSS? So what’s the difference?
I think it's design / aesthetic choice.
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#138I'm still on Daisyui and feeling FOMO here. Is it worth the switch and why?
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
> building your own UI library It's one more thing to maintain, and it's also difficult to push back on things. If you use off the shelf components it's much easier to say to designers and managers that a UX pattern is not available or not valid. You can point to the mature well known community owned UI library you use and make it authoritative. It's harder to do it if you build your own, suddenly each designer and d…
Odd to me when I read stuff like this but also posts about how AI is making everything trivial. Surely a thing that almost every company did in the early 2000s should not be hard today, but of course today you can’t just write HTML + CSS, you must consider every front end framework introduced in the last decade.
I remember the 2000s web, it was primitive. It's not hard to combine some html and css, it is hard to support more complex dynamic actions and components, all with consistent theming and behaviors and have them composable and reusable.