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Re: Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

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Repo's been up for a week and already it has 14k stars. Oh look, they are gaining stars at a rate of pretty much exactly 1400 per day: https://www.star-history.com/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&ty... Yeah, nothing shady here at all.

Do people really buy stars for github? Would explain some of these crazy growths

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Re: Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

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post #9

How does a human designer even compete? I just looked at all the demos and they look beautiful. I hand designed my site https://www.nair.sh/ and it feels like it doesn't even compare. Sure, there's some judgment as to what design is appropriate in a given situation, but it just feels like so much harder for a human's design to feel valuable now.

How do human artists compete with AI-gen images?

Re: Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

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The README is unnerving. Do people really see the Claude-salesman style of writing as something normal? On the other hand, I should be thanking Anthropic for making it so easy to spot, they might have done this intentionally.

Yep I agree. I was looking for a getting started like for example here for openspec: https://github.com/Fission-AI/OpenSpec/blob/main/docs/gettin... but couldn't find anything like that

Re: Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

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post #9

How does a human designer even compete? I just looked at all the demos and they look beautiful. I hand designed my site https://www.nair.sh/ and it feels like it doesn't even compare. Sure, there's some judgment as to what design is appropriate in a given situation, but it just feels like so much harder for a human's design to feel valuable now.

Originality. The same as with art. Art and design are more than just a mean to satisfy a need. They are an opportunity to explore, to question. When Georges Seurat developed pointillism, he wasn't trying to compete with the people who could imitate Raphael. He created his own direction.

Re: Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

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post #9

How does a human designer even compete? I just looked at all the demos and they look beautiful. I hand designed my site https://www.nair.sh/ and it feels like it doesn't even compare. Sure, there's some judgment as to what design is appropriate in a given situation, but it just feels like so much harder for a human's design to feel valuable now.

Are you a designer? Everything AI does looks impressive if you are not familiar with it.

Re: Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

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The README is unnerving. Do people really see the Claude-salesman style of writing as something normal? On the other hand, I should be thanking Anthropic for making it so easy to spot, they might have done this intentionally.

> That's not "AI tries to design something". That's an AI that has been trained, by the prompt stack, to behave like a senior designer with a working filesystem, a deterministic palette library, and a checklist culture

What, you don't want your senior designer to have a working filesystem and checklist culture? No deterministic palettes?

Re: Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

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post #8

Repo's been up for a week and already it has 14k stars. Oh look, they are gaining stars at a rate of pretty much exactly 1400 per day: https://www.star-history.com/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&ty... Yeah, nothing shady here at all.

Do people really buy stars for github? Would explain some of these crazy growths

Don't underestimate stars given by claws without direct instruction from humans. Not bought or sold, but not real either.
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