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Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
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Re: Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
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Re: Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
#63A lot of these things are made fast and loose, and unfortunately this is the reality of using the bleeding edge. Even Figma went through this kind of thing very early on. To add something else to the discussion however, I'd encourage people to skip out on Claude Design for other reasons, and that is the inherent restrictions of LLMs for visual design. LLMs are blind, and spatial relativity is tremendously hard across…
Or just use Google's Stitch, it integrates both code via Gemini and image UI generation via Nano Banana which I'd argue is even better than OpenAI's image models.
It's really not, gpt-image-2 is #1 by over 100 ELO.
Re: Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
#64Hi there, Thariq from the Claude team here. Sorry this is happening, we'll fix it ASAP.
We don't want anyone to feel locked into the tool. Claude's designs are HTML/CSS/JS that any editor can handle; we'll make sure it's possible to download them even after you unsubscribe.
Re: Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
#65Looks like I need to do a daily backup of the artifacts generated.
Re: Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
#66When you lose access to your projects, does Anthropic acquire the intellectual property? It's a real issue when it's in a machine learning system, not passive storage like Github.
There is no intellectual property in ai output, at least as far as legal rulings in the US currently stand. I guess you are asking whether they will use them once you unsubscribe. My cynical take would be probably they will, but read through their fine print ;)
Re: Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
#67Cannot help but think Claude team are busy adding gimmicky side features instead of doing 'real' RSI and bugfixing.
The lovely irony of a bleeding edge AI company being afflicted by the most mundane problem of all software engineering—the goldfish attention span of human coders.
>The lovely irony of a bleeding edge AI company being afflicted by the most mundane problem of all software engineering—the goldfish attention span of management
FTFY
Shiny thing syndrome at its finest.
Re: Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean LLMs are blind? All frontier models are multimodal, which means they literally consume images as tokens. They can “see” exactly as well as they can “read”. Also, GPT-Image-2 is not a diffusion model, it is based on Transformers, like other LLMs are.
I guess they do "see" but more like "see an explanation of the image", not "see" as in experience visually. They're really bad at details and perfection when it comes to images, and doesn't understand things like visual hierarchy, affordances and other fundamental design concepts. Most of them are able to describe those things with letters, but doesn't seem to actually fundamentally grasp it when asking it to do UIs…
the models can accept images directly as tokens. not a description of an image, the actual image itself.
yes, the visual intelligence is limited, but they do actually have vision capabilities.
Re: Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess it's not a termination, but a downgrade to the "free" tier. But that still makes sense, given Claude Design is limited "to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans". He's not on that plan anymore so.. what commercial reason could they possibly have to keep his data? Google Workspace seems to halt access immediately[1] and purge data within 60d[2]. For comparison, Atlassian leaves you access for 15d, and purges da…
So if I subscribe again? do I expect to have the previous data or it will start afresh? I want to know if I should subscribe again to get this data or shouldn't bother. You can talk about all these rules, but that was my data, when I was subscribed to their product, I'm not asking for access to generate more, just my past sessions.
Well, in an ideal scenario, you would have exported anything you wanted to keep, and you'd import it if you subscribe again.
How long would you expect them to keep your data for? Do you really expect them to pay storage costs for your data indefinitely just because you paid them $20 once upon a time?
And on the inverse side, would you really want your data to be compromised when they inevitably get breached just because you had a sub there once?
These are the reasons data retention policies exist.
Re: Tell HN: Dont use Claude Design, lost access to my projects after unsubscribing
#70A lot of these things are made fast and loose, and unfortunately this is the reality of using the bleeding edge. Even Figma went through this kind of thing very early on. To add something else to the discussion however, I'd encourage people to skip out on Claude Design for other reasons, and that is the inherent restrictions of LLMs for visual design. LLMs are blind, and spatial relativity is tremendously hard across…
> A lot of these things are made fast and loose
No kidding - you can't even delete a design system, draft or otherwise. Research Preview is accurate, it can do some things (but every system I've tried building it has resorted to the "hero text with key word in a different color" trope, however I try different prompts), but there's a lot missing (and when you ask Claude Design how to delete a design system it gives you an absolutely inaccurate and hallucinated answer and you say fine, here's the project ID, do it for me, "Sorry, can't, only you can").