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nottorptoday at 3:48 PM1 replyview on HN

If we speak of design, most tech project sites, from "solo founder SAAS" to "we got 2 billion from YC" have looked the same to me for years.

We can hope the LLMs hallucinate slightly different CSS once in a while now...


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swat535today at 4:36 PM

Yea, I mean we've had so many phases.. Bootstrap, Web 2.0, Tailwind, "Material" UI, etc.. with random frameworks, from Rails to NextJS..

There's always a trend and everyone follows them in Software. Now it's AI.. let's not pretend cutting corners is anything new in our industry.

I guess you can always gloat about your artisan code but people who use Software for business never cared about that to begin with.

Plus, wasn't the entire philosophy of CS was that "everyone can code" ? Opposing licensing requirements, etc ? Well.. there you have it, code is a commodity now and the barrier to entry is next to none.