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by dvt 82 days ago
To me, what's super interesting about this is the fact that my brain instantly recognized it's AI coded (not sure why, it might be the spacing, the font, the text glow, etc.).
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Developers and their customers mostly gave up design many years ago and used frameworks like Bootstrap because they are good enough, they are cheap to create, they increase speed to deliver with no external designer in the loop, etc. That made many sites look alike. AI designed web sites are the next natural step.
The First thought that came to mind was It's AI coded. Maybe it's because they follow a similar design pattern. Or maybe we have some supernatural powers
one big AI tell is grid of rounded rects - https://correctarity.com/roundedrects
Claude always makes sites look this way.
What way? Genuine curiosity
This sort of bluish dark mode with monospace fonts. Similar accent colors. Not sure where it got this style from.
I think it's because the UI sucks, like really bad. Why is there a CRT-type line in the background going down constantly. The mission timeline has weird colors that make no sense. Some graphs don't even fit their parent element. And so on.

I don't care if its vibe-coded but if you looked at this and thought "yeah that looks good", it only shows how bad you are at UI.

These types of interfaces are cool if you're like 12

What's even more interesting is that data is completely off compared to official sources, and the author doesn't even have the decency and self-reflection of checking if their slop is at all accurate before posting it to the HN front page.

Vibe coders, like the eggman himself, are philosophical zombies.