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
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