How dangerous is this eh?

Am I the only one who gets annoyed at "design" being used to mean specifically UI design without qualification or warning?

is this the Figma/Canva/Powerpoint/Keynote killer?

no info regarding privacy and data if you connect your repo?

Postmodernists are annoying because they are right about design. "Taste", aesthetics, design, vibes they're all as socially-constructed and post-truth as that annoying sophomore says everything is. The world is design is an isekai manga in which Derrida's delusions are the rules of physics. It's weird.

Part of this weirdness is the continual relativism of design. A taste-meme is good or cringe only relative to the prevailing social environment, never itself. An AI can never do "design", properly understood, because design is the work done by a reluctance motor, spinning endlessly in a Sysphean quest to align itself with a moving magnetic field and producing torque by side effect.

All efforts like this can do is capture the field alignment at an instant in time. It cannot do work. It cannot produce motion, not as long as its weights are as fixed as the field lines of a neodymium magnet. The instant AI design is good, it becomes bad through the act of becoming good.

Producing work through motion of taste may be one of the last human endeavors to be absorbed.

Isn't this just going to be AI slop but on a design level?

It's not X, it's Y! all over again?

Reminder that Claude's own AI design skill (which is probably incorporated directly into this product) says things like

>NEVER use generic AI-generated aesthetics like overused font families (Inter, Roboto, Arial, system fonts), cliched color schemes (particularly purple gradients on white backgrounds), predictable layouts and component patterns, and cookie-cutter design that lacks context-specific character.

> Interpret creatively and make unexpected choices that feel genuinely designed for the context. No design should be the same. Vary between light and dark themes, different fonts, different aesthetics. NEVER converge on common choices (Space Grotesk, for example) across generations.

[1] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/...

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I wonder if this is the death of true design.

A lot of people here are saying this will never replace human creativity. It's difficult to know ahead of time which things AI (or more broadly, technology) will succeed at and which it will (for now) fail at. So it's good that people are trying to apply AI to everything: some things will fail, but some we expect will fail will not, and if we had followed our intuition we wouldn't have tried and never would have succeeded.

Semi-relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1425/