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by john01dav 2 days ago
I disagree because they communicate different things (to me).

Seeing Bootsrap for some custom software at my university pre-llm: "I think that a programmer made this and didn't have a designer helping them so they just used a library"

Seeing vibe-coded frontend: "This app may be entirely vibe coded so I am deeply suspicious of it, or it could be a programmer who didn't have a designer helping them and thus used Bootstrap"
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Planktonne 1 day ago
Basic bootstrap means 'the developer did not care much about design'.

Vibe-coded frontend means 'the creator didn't care about design or potentially any aspect of this'.

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john01dav 1 day ago
> Basic bootstrap means 'the developer did not care much about design'.

It could also reasonably mean that they consider a generic design fine. Design has many aspects, and branding/uniqueness is only one. You could, for example, have a very high quality layout of the bootstrap controls that is very easy and intuitive to use.

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