[40four]

I hate to be crass, I’m consciously trying to avoid well defined HN guidelines here, but the article is about discussing design aesthetics we encounter when we are interacring with AI not design asthetics the AI outputs when we ask it to write code for us. I get the confusion though, the title is a bit of a trick, probably on purpose

[eddythompson80]

The article is covering both

> As another example, before AI what were the connotations of the sparkle emoji ? Personally, I don’t know, but now it means AI.

> For example, a lot of AI apps use tiny icons

> There are other aesthetics my brain associates with AI, like beige/cream colors, orange accents, and serif typefaces as well as whack-a-mole UI controls

Are examples of the AI outputs

> For example: streaming text

> For example, the “shimmering text”

Are examples of interacting with AI

[NicuCalcea]

I read all of these as being about interacting with AI. It says apps made by AI labs have tiny icons, not that AI-generated apps have tiny icons.

[eddythompson80]

I did wonder which one to put that under. It might be it own category of “made by AI company”, but I also think both Anthropic and OpenAI have been vocal about how their codex and Claude code is 100% AI generated

But how is AI outputing sparkle emoji or orange accents colors interacting with AI? Unless you also classify AI output as a form of interacting with AI

[NicuCalcea]

The sparkle emoji has become an indicator for "this is an AI feature, click here to do AI things". I have even used it.

The beige UI with orange accents probably refers to the design guidelines of Anthropic, Mistral, Microsoft AI and a bunch of other companies. They all try to use soft, non-threatening colours, and for some reason those two are a popular choice.

[eddythompson80]

Huh, ok. I disagree. Sparkle emoji and beige cream or orange accents every where is definitely AI output, not some “AI features here”. I don’t even see sparkle emoji on any AI websites or “features”. It’s only in sloppy output and most people will tell you to remove it because it screams slop too much.

[NicuCalcea]

Here are just a few examples I found in a couple of minutes:

- https://www.salesforce.com/artificial-intelligence/

- https://copilot.cloud.microsoft/

- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Meta_AI_...

- Literally the Gemini logo