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An irony to this is that the front-ends generated by older models are gonna end up looking distinctive. If you rock a Claude Sonnet 3.7 (or was it Sonnet 4) mid-2025 purple gradient background forever you've set yourself well apart
Oh no, I just realised we’re going to have a nostalgia wave for old school AI in 20 to 30 years. Well maybe not you and I but it’s gonna happen.
Is the "'shimmering text' for waiting" thing really that recent? I feel like that is a bit older, but maybe I am wrong. I have more and more difficulty remembering how long things have been around as I get older.
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Me too, but I suppose something had to be somewhat popular for llms to regularly put it in design artifacts, now.
It wasn't shimmering, but the "hey I'm your computer and this is what I'm doing, oh watch, now I'm doing this" paradigm, was popular in loading screens, installers, and the explicitly personal / anthropomorphized language was on the rise for a long time. Starting with addressing users personally instead of using neutral language like with labels in physical tools. Also the "drawing attention" part I think mimics chat…
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I disagree because they communicate different things (to me). Seeing Bootsrap for some custom software at my university pre-llm: "I think that a programmer made this and didn't have a designer helping them so they just used a library" Seeing vibe-coded frontend: "This app may be entirely vibe coded so I am deeply suspicious of it, or it could be a programmer who didn't have a designer helping them and thus used Boots…
Basic bootstrap means 'the developer did not care much about design'. Vibe-coded frontend means 'the creator didn't care about design or potentially any aspect of this'.
It could also reasonably mean that they consider a generic design fine. Design has many aspects, and branding/uniqueness is only one. You could, for example, have a very high quality layout of the bootstrap controls that is very easy and intuitive to use.
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Oh yeah I mean check these out: https://imgur.com/a/kLKTtAz https://imgur.com/a/9fidnRv The rollercoaster on the second one was the breakthrough that then eventually led to what I have today
Seconding the other comment, that second one is by far my favorite
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Oh yeah I mean check these out: https://imgur.com/a/kLKTtAz https://imgur.com/a/9fidnRv The rollercoaster on the second one was the breakthrough that then eventually led to what I have today
The second link here is easily my favorite of the three.
But that's how taste works! It's personal
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Huh, ok. I disagree. Sparkle emoji and beige cream or orange accents every where is definitely AI output, not some “AI features here”. I don’t even see sparkle emoji on any AI websites or “features”. It’s only in sloppy output and most people will tell you to remove it because it screams slop too much.
Here are just a few examples I found in a couple of minutes: - https://www.salesforce.com/artificial-intelligence/ - https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/ - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Meta_AI_... - Literally the Gemini logo
I’ve never seen or heard anyone mention sparkle emoji as a tell-tail sign of AI generated content, in the way that you hear about em-dash for example.
But I have seen the icon used in just about every website/app that wants to let you know they are using “AI” in some form or another.
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I actually like the shimmer effect, I think it’s preferable to almost all spinners. If the agent is set up to properly show intent then this is better than spinners or exponentially decreasing loading bars.
Shimmer effect is for AI.