Ask HN: How to stop your coding agent from creating just AI slop for the UI/UX?

Posted by AlanAAG on Friday June 19, 2026 @02:32PM
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Coding agents are increasingly taking over tasks for us, but ui/ux is still something that just keeps looking like plain ai slop. I am sure theres ways to solve this, how??

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Re:Ask HN: How to stop your coding agent from creating just ... by minimaxir on Friday June 19, 2026 @03:02PM (#48601971)

Give it a reference (e.g. a screenshot) or a design inspiration. You have to explicitly tell LLMs what you don't want, they are not mind-readers.

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Re:Ask HN: How to stop your coding agent from creating just ... by andrewstuart on Friday June 19, 2026 @02:35PM (#48601682)

Tell Claude to use its web design skill and give you 10 styles to choose from. Point it to a style you like.

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