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Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

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Re: Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

#61

It’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?

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.

Re: Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

#62
post #8

For 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.

> that should just be ticking up a version imber.

Is it ever that simple?

Re: Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

#63
post #51

It’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?

Serious question, why does it matter to you? Maybe they wrote a draft and reviewed Claude's writing before publishing. Why are we trying to "call out" when AI is assisting us in our work? This is an open source project, not a F500 company. They have limited resources, maybe English isn't their first language.

Because it means that they think I'm stupid.

They think it's not worth investing human attention to write it, so why am I expected to invest my attention to read it?

If it's written as SEO spam, why link it here?

If it's written to be read by humans, do they think we're stupid?

Re: Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

#64
post #10
post #8

For 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.

Martine just straight up sucks. Vendoring your components gives you the best of both worlds. You get a full component library but retain the ability to modify them as you want. Your AI agent claim doesn't make any sense either. When upgrading normally your component just gets rewritten on disk. When switching from radix to base ui, a more comprehensive approach is needed.

> Mantine just straight up sucks. > Mantine is brilliant.

Thanks internet.

Re: Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

#65

It’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?

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Re: Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

#66

I have used and mostly like Shadcn, and yet their Radix-based radio button was a bit much, as are other choices, where similarly overblown solutions were used. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46688971

My main gripe with Shadcn and, well, most UI libraries nowadays, is that they are reinventing the wheel for like a thousandth time. I’m trying out Ark UI on a side project. They do have some genuinely useful components, like tags input: https://ark-ui.com/docs/components/tags-input They have a tabs/“segment group” component with a nice animated active element indicator which would probably be tricky to implement: htt…

I think this is really an indictment of the platform. Much more stuff should be covered by the browser.

Re: Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

#68
post #61

It’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?

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.

I didn't read the post and scrolled to a random clause.

"Because you own the code. You've added variants, changed classes, threaded new props. A codemod handles the components you never touched and breaks on the ones you did."

Re: Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

#69

It’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?

Oh, I know exactly what you mean. I use plannotator with claude a lot and have much better time, since I asked for a specific styleguide.

I used "CD era MSDN reference and Raymond Chen blogging style" as a starting prompt for the styleguide and my work ability to digest AI plans raised a lot.

Couldn't recommend it more. Humble, insightful and respecting the reader

Re: Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix

#70
post #61

It’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?

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.

Maybe the human has been reading too much ai generated text and got influenced by it?
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