[deaux]

Supreme irony: this website itself is a better exercise in showing what Claude Code uses than the data provided.

Everything current Claude Code i.e. Opus 4.6 chooses by default for web is exactly what this linked blog uses.

Jetbrains Mono is as strong of a tell for web as "Not just A, but B" for text. >99% of webpages created in the last month with Jetbrains Mono will be Opus. Another tell is the overuse of this font, i.e. too much of the page uses it. Other models, and humans, use such variants vary sparingly on web, whereas Opus slathers the page with it.

If you describe the content of the homepage or this article to Opus 4.6 without telling it about the styling, it will 90% match this website, upto the color scheme, fonts, roundings, borders and all. This is _the_ archetypical Opus vibecoded web frontend. Give it a try! If it doesn't work, try with the official frontend-ui-ux "skill" that CC tries to push on you.

> Drizzle 27/83 picks (32.5%) CI: 23.4–43.2%

> Prisma 17/83 picks (20.5%) CI: 13.2–30.4%

At least the abomination that is Prisma not ranking first is positive news, Drizzle was just in time of gaining steam. Not that it doesn't have its flaws, but out of the two it's a no-brainer. Also hilarious to see that the stronger the model, the less likely it's to choose Prisma - Sonnet 4.5 79% Prisma, Opus 4.5 60% Drizzle, Opus 4.6 100% Drizzle. One of the better benchmarks for intelligence I've come across!

Edit: Another currently on the HN frontpage: https://youjustneedpostgres.com/ , and there it is - lots and lots of Jetbrains Mono!

[marcinreal]

Glad I'm not the only one who finds Prisma an abomination. Claude suggested it to me in December. I hit half a dozen bugs within a day, one of which wiped my DB. I switched to drizzle and it's been smooth sailing.

Edit: actually I think it was ChatGPT that recommended Prisma to me.

[deaux]

The software itself is bad enough, as a cherry on top the maintainers have a long history of astroturfing on Reddit to try and silence criticism. For a DB package. Come on man. Normally if maintainers do this they'll at least start with "Hey, maintainer here", but nope.

Their whole mission is clearly "make the already easy things slightly easier, and the hard things harder or impossible". Or really "suck the VC teat until it's as parched as the Sahara". In that sense, Prisma is the exact thing you'd expect to happen with a VC-funded DB package. ZIRP really made them invest into the craziest things.

I like Kysely more than Drizzle, even moreso now with Claude, but Drizzle is fine too. As long as it's not Prisma, and preferably not TypeORM or Sequelize either.

[marcinreal]

It's crazy that prisma had 40k github stars last I checked. I haven't followed the js ecosystem that closely, but I thought stars would be some indication of quality, but no. It is totally unsuitable for any serious application. I've heard good things about kysely.

[jofzar]

It's funny you mention the font, to me it's the boxes, they all look the same, I'm not sure where it's from but if you ever see a card like CSS made it looks like this blog.

[deaux]

Yeah that's the specific rounding/color/thickness combo, `rounded-lg bg-white border border-stone-200`.

[codingconstable]

Yeah its those bars for categories for me, they look EXACTLY like something I vibed (with no particular style prompt) into existence yesterday

[gck1]

Which is why I find "LLMs will replace x in 12 months" so amusing. I've used LLMs to write decently sized backend projects and they turned out okay.

I also used it for several FE projects and all of them turned out absolutely terrible.

The only difference is that I have 15 years of BE experience and 0 years of FE experience. Had I allowed it to make the same average decisions when working on BE, they would share the same fate.