The more I think about it the more this isn't good for design [EDIT], for a few reasons: - The best design is original, groundbreaking and often counterintuitive. An AI model is incapable of that, it's uninspired, it will absolutely converge to the norm and homogeneity (you see it everywhere now, just scroll on ShowHN and take a look at the UIs) and produce the safest design that appeals to its understanding of the i…
> The best design is original, groundbreaking and often counterintuitive.
Jeez I hope fewer designers think like this (and if it's a traditional wisdom among designers, I hope fewer designers in general.) Perhaps web apps will stop moving their icons and buttons around every six months.
The folks at Wall Street do not understand this does not replace Figma. Figma is targeted towards designers who create thoughtful design systems and cohesive UIs and who don't code, while this is targeted towards vibe coders who can't design. Two different circles that intersect to some level. But like you said, if anthropic adds the tools in Figma, only then they can can take customers from Figma IMO.
Tailwind is for those who could code but can’t design. Figma is for those who could design but can’t code. This is for those who could neither design nor code.
This take might have sounded convincing a year ago. Now it just sounds foolish. The best coders on the planet are using AI. Why wouldn’t they use this?
> It's not replacing designers. Except it is. Plenty of places will say this is all good enough and not hire, or even lay off, the UI/UX person. I've seen this firsthand.
I have seen this as well, except the UI ends up all looking similar, because the harness prompt and training data doesn’t change much The average becomes the same shade of gray. Familiarity breeds contempt. New types of design will emerge that are expensive to copy, because differentiation drives competition
Y’all would have much more productive conversations about AI if you were even for a second able to differentiate the aspects of $x that you care about as a craft via which the majority of people care about. HN has truly become the embodiment of the “this is fine” meme.
It is officially the 2010 Google era at Anthropic (the era where Google released tons of new products and spread themselves too thin). Anyone remember Google's social media platform??? Google Plus? This is a good era to be in! Its the era of product experimentation. As long as you realize that 90% of the products will not be supported long term if it doesn't contribute to bottom line revenue, then just appreciate it…
You mean you aren't still using Google Duo and Allo? Google Reader? Playing games on your Stadia? I'd be worried about really locking into a specific Anthropic product at this point other than Claude Code
I still fondly remember playing cyberpunk 2077 on release date with no download time. What the future could have been . Probably would have become economically infeasible regardless with GPU prices due to AI though
I don't really care about the web builder, a better slide deck creator I'm down for with MCP capabilities, pulling in things like Atlassian & Dyantrace metrics for slides would be nice including github issues etc.
"create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more." I use Opus to generate Typst for that and I'm already pretty happy with that approach. It gives me a degree of control I do not have with other methods, because 1. Typst is really powerful 2. Opus is really good at surgically modifying Typst I basically never look at the Typst code for this. Telling Opus visually what I want changed…
Typst is unfairly good for doing systematic designs. I wrote a template system for a complex product catalog in a couple days. Then I modeled the clients products list (exported from their ERP) to the schema and generated a hundred pages catalog instantly with flawless layout. Traditional catalog design in InDesign is extremely prone to errors and inconsistencies, not to mention time consuming if done by hand and very brittle if done with the native automation, which does not handle tabular data very well, requiring arcane non-UTF8 encodings. With Typst, if done right and input data is properly treated once, you can wholly skip the review phase which is represents a massive cost reduction. IMO doing this kind of parametric design from a DSL, either for print or digital, is something massively underrated. Surely feels like cheating. Organizing the media files is a bit more time consuming, though, even with automation. But once you organize and standardize the media repo you’re set, as you just need to do the plumbing once.
I see a lot of responses here taking the purist line: that it's not real design and customers will know the difference. I suspect it's close enough in many cases that customers won't know or won't care. Likely it will have a big impact on design employment.
the beauty is in the consistency. why do we build with right angles, straight lines, regular curves, etc? Why not random angles, crooked lines, etc for style and "excitement"? Why don't we assemble a furniture set from a random assortment of pieces from flea markets? People sense that that is ugly.
It could also be that this is an exciting new, fast changing technology that happens to directly overlap and significantly impact the core audience of the site. I don’t think any form of maliciousness or secret astroturfing is required at all. This stuff has changed a ton of what it means to exist in this whole “tech space”. The entire software development lifecycle got put into a stick blender and is in the process…
I think it's probably both in the end. Anthropic has a lot of fans, and combine that with excited employees and investors, they probably don't need to do much explicit astroturfing to reach top of HN. But they also desperately need users (and the data those users bring) to build their products, and the people who do have the power to manipulate this site are on their team. And it does get tiring to see a new Claude f…
I mean you aren’t wrong. It’s just I don’t think it requires any kind of vote manipulation to see why ai company releases hit the front page. Back in browser war days it was the same thing.