[adamdb]

I'm going to play devil's advocate, who cares if it all looks generally the same? I grew up before everyone had dial-up, and I remember back then, when Web surfing on Netscape Navigator, all the websites also had a similar structure. Homogeneity in this context, to me, signals a design system that works best in the moment.

[ulrikrasmussen]

Uniqueness is a costly signal in a sea of information that is all calling for your attention. It signals that you as an author have spent real time on your web page to make it yours.

[embedding-shape]

> who cares if it all looks generally the same?

Maybe here lies the crux; for some of us, the web and by extension the internet is about expression and individuality in a way, but all together all accessible by everyone. Everything looking the same instead looks conformist, and ultimately boring, which I guess is what many of us don't want day after day. We want new ideas, presented by the person/group who came up with it, in the way they would express it. The LLM kind of trashes the parts that add up to something interesting.

[tptacek]

If you're doing art, do art. Nobody's stopping you. If you're trying to solve a problem for other people, be legible. Legibility and individual expression are goals in tension.

[embedding-shape]

I'm not saying replace the entire thing with a flash animation or something drastically "artsy", just yours.

[tptacek]

Colors? Sure, within reason. Layouts? No, bad. Unless you really know what you’re doing and why.

[sofixa]

> who cares if it all looks generally the same?

It's not just about being the same, in which case the worst is that it has less to stand out with.

It's about looking the same as the other AI generated slops out there, which is a strong signal that the content is probably AI slop too, which doesn't merit time being spent on it and trying to understand if it's slop or a human that just used AI generated UI.