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by dan15 113 days ago
It uses shadcn so often, to the point where seeing shadcn components with default styling often means the site was built by AI. It's like Bootstrap 10 years ago - so many sites used it with default styling that it was instantly recognizable.
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assane101 113 days ago
How is that a sign of a site built with AI if most people would use the defaults the same way AI is doing ?

> It's like Bootstrap 10 years ago

What do you mean there ?

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h4ch1 113 days ago
Highly pervasive, first step people do before starting new projects is setting up stuff like Tailwind, Shadcn; they also don't bother much with modifying how it looks since it looks decent out of the box causing similar looking websites everywhere; similar to how the Bootstrap craze was back from 2012-2015/6; where all websites just looked the same[0]

[0]: Example of the common "Bootstrap style" https://getbootstrap.com/2.3.1/assets/img/examples/bootstrap...

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dan15 102 days ago
A lot of the sites that use shadcn's default styling are AI-generated. The people that use it in hand-written code usually customize the appearance at least a little bit.
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