Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine

Post by ambicapter » Sat, May 02, 2026, 5:45 PM UTC

AstroBen wrote: post #17

ricardobeat wrote: post #3

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?

Post by bryanrasmussen » Sat, May 02, 2026, 6:39 PM UTC

jshaqaw wrote: post #26

The inevitable outcome here is that designed materials become so generic and infinitely produceable that they become worthless background noise. We are well on the way to that path. For almost all materials the only value of getting a seriously produced work of design (i.e., the "make me a magazine-style pitch deck for our seed round" this design engine mentions) is a signaling function that some combination of effor…

Post by maddmann » Sat, May 02, 2026, 6:54 PM UTC

Post by whattheheckheck » Sat, May 02, 2026, 7:12 PM UTC

xnx wrote: post #57

jshaqaw wrote: post #26

The inevitable outcome here is that designed materials become so generic and infinitely produceable that they become worthless background noise. We are well on the way to that path. For almost all materials the only value of getting a seriously produced work of design (i.e., the "make me a magazine-style pitch deck for our seed round" this design engine mentions) is a signaling function that some combination of effor…

> The inevitable outcome here is that designed materials become so generic and infinitely produceable that they become worthless background noise. Hopefully. The process has taken way too long. Compare to something similar like PowerPoint animations. Fun the first time you see them, and then annoying after that. The best possible side effect of the cost of producing content dropping to zero would be more effort spent…

Post by ori_b » Sat, May 02, 2026, 8:56 PM UTC

singpolyma3 wrote: post #88

ori_b wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we're building a dystopia where AIs do the work humans enjoy, and humans get to hold on to drudgery. What's not to like?

Nothing stops humans from doing what they enjoy