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by cmiles8 27 days ago
While AI coding helps a ton in building product prototypes, it also results in products that folks spot as AI from a mile away.

Literally just saw startup demo their app and their app which had that “vibe coded UI” look to it.

They were given devastating feedback of “Guys this is kinda cool, but you obviously had AI build this and thus anyone else that wants this can have AI build it for them too very quickly. As such there’s really no value in what you’re trying to sell here.”

It was cold, but accurate feedback they needed to hear.

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This sounds like a fantasy in your head rather than something that actually happened. No competent VC would give meaningless feedback like this- if it's good, it's good; who cares if AI built it? If it's the same quality product but wasn't obviously vibe coded, then it would be fine? Only someone ideologically opposed to AI would care.
What is funny about that is if you setup a basic design system, css and such, The AI generated front end code will fit right in nicely but most don't even go through that basic amount of care.

Rounded corners still seems to be the unending trend through that anything that wasn't already well defined gets infected with.

Great, more of this. I cant stand llm generated UI nor the people that think its sufficient.