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Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Continuing in that vein, it'd be interesting to see a Win98 version. Edit: https://retr0.id/stuff/deslop/

This one works well. I think it's because there's no shine to it, it's just the data, what you need, right there without trying to fluff it all out with rounded edges and superfluous stuff.

What? Do you not see all those borders and insets literally everywhere here?

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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Continuing in that vein, it'd be interesting to see a Win98 version. Edit: https://retr0.id/stuff/deslop/

Unironically the best one out of the lot. Man, we digressed so far from where we were...

I fix some bugs here

https://phpbb.go-here.nl

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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I find it such a hard thing to quantify, I know it's not helpful but you can just feel the slop seep through. I'm not sure if it's because I've iterated through so many sites that LLMs have produced that "slop" is instantly recognisable and it just feels soulless. Not like web pages ever had a soul, but it's not there on the generic LLM generated sites.

Imagine you get this original version from a frontend guy pre AI , would you still see slop seep through ?

I'd probably just accept that I'd hired them through fiverr.

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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I find it such a hard thing to quantify, I know it's not helpful but you can just feel the slop seep through. I'm not sure if it's because I've iterated through so many sites that LLMs have produced that "slop" is instantly recognisable and it just feels soulless. Not like web pages ever had a soul, but it's not there on the generic LLM generated sites.

Imagine you get this original version from a frontend guy pre AI , would you still see slop seep through ?

I’d probably think it looked alright.

I think it’s the fact that my eyes have been blasted with a certain visual ‘vibe’, and I’ve come to associate it with apps that are, on average, a bit lazy

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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You really have to a) use Opus and b) use the frontend-design skill for decent results. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...

I have seen so many brown sites that look all the same, all designed by this thing most likely. So no.

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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I kinda liked the Original, HIG and Windows 11 versions the most. When I think "AI slop" (in terms of web design), I think dark theme, rich purples and vibrant hues, huge headings, etc. The SaaS one kind of has that with the purples and vibrant hues; it easily looks the "sloppiest" to my eye.

Personal preferences I suppose.

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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I think this says more about "modern" UI than it does about AI slop. The awfulness of all this comes mostly from the fact that widgets no longer have consistent shape, theme or interaction behaviour ever since desktop paridigms and original Xerox/Parc research were abandoned in favour of web slop. So yeah, this is much more Web Slop than AI Slop. AI is just amplifying it.

Continuing in that vein, it'd be interesting to see a Win98 version. Edit: https://retr0.id/stuff/deslop/

Oh man. I am a sort of pragmatic AI cynic and I wasn't even a fan of how Windows 98 looked but my heart just skipped a beat.

What does it do if you suggest it looks like an OpenLook/XView/OpenWindows application? (That is where my heart really belongs)

Doubt there's much in the training set...

Re: Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end

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You really have to a) use Opus and b) use the frontend-design skill for decent results. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...

I have seen so many brown sites that look all the same, all designed by this thing most likely. So no.

claude slop :D
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