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Tells of a Slop UI

386 points · 243 comments · theanonymousone

  1. minimaxir · · focus · HN ↗
    People don't realize that you're allowed to tell LLMs/agents "no." In the real world, it's a professional faux pas to question the design of a creative coworker when you may not know design better, but LLMs/agents are not your coworkers.

    Don't like abuse of serif fonts? "NEVER use serif fonts."

    Don't like the gaudy color palettes? "Use this color palette with a white-dominant background"

    Don't like the marketing fluff? "Remove all non-salient text from this app."

    You're encouraged to be picky.

    1. tomrod · · focus · HN ↗
      > it's a professional faux pas to question the design of a creative coworker when you may not know design better

      Huh. I've been committing this professional faux pas for years without consequences. There are simply a lot of bad designers out there.

      I'm not sure I agree with this particular point, but, the rest of your comment I wholeheartedly agree with.

      1. wongarsu · · focus · HN ↗
        And there are a lot of designers who are good, but only in a different medium. Being able to make a good flyer, a good trade fair booth and a good website are completely different skills, but all too often the same designer is expected to do all of those, and more
      2. minimaxir · · focus · HN ↗
        I admit that those type of politics depend on workplace culture and I worked at two highly creative-oriented companies previously, and in both companies any attempt to point out issues in the design resulted in a "this is according to design spec; not fixing."
        1. tomrod · · focus · HN ↗
          Totally fair.
      3. falsemyrmidon · · focus · HN ↗
        Not a designer but the worst feedback you can get from your coworkers is nothing.
    2. [deleted] · · focus · HN ↗

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    3. pointillism · · focus · HN ↗
      my agents.md says “If I see ‘indigo-500’ anywhere in your code I will fucking kill you.”
      1. tomrod · · focus · HN ↗
        We are now on the Roko's Basilisk list
      2. dsjakupov · · focus · HN ↗
        Ha, on Android that wouldn't help you, already tried hahahah
      3. cindyllm · · focus · HN ↗

        [dead]

    4. frett · · focus · HN ↗
      Posts like this are why I don’t trust many pro-AI takes on here.
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