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misir | 1 month ago

I wonder if these colors are a kind of a watermark that are hardcoded as system instructions. Almost all slopware made using claude have the same color palette. So much for a random token generator to be this consistent

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orbital-decay|1 month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_collapse

Ask any modern (post-GPT-2) LLM about a random color/name/city repeatedly a few dozen times, and you'll see it's not that random. You can influence this with a prompt, obviously, but if the prompt stays the same each time, the output is always very similar despite the existence of thousands of valid alternatives. Which is the case for any vibecoded thing that doesn't specify the color palette, in particular.

This effect is largely responsible for slop (as in annoying stereotypes). It's fixable in principle, but there's pretty little research and I don't see big AI shops care enough.

karanSF|1 month ago

Emojis on every line are an AI tell. The times I do use AI (shhhh...) I always remove them and tweak the language a bit.

netule|1 month ago

Before LLMs became big, I used emojis in my PRs and merge requests for fun and to break up the monotony a bit. Now I avoid them, lest I be accused of being a bot.

rudhdb773b|1 month ago

Isn't it mostly ChatGPT that does that?

Grok almost never uses emojis.

IhateAI|1 month ago

Yep, and I refuse to use sites that look like this. Lovable built frontend/landing pages have a similar feel. Instant lost of trust and desire to try it out.

bawolff|1 month ago

Its interesting - AI has a certain style. You can see it in pictures and even text content. It does instantly get my guard up.

j45|1 month ago

That's interesting - do you think because it's familiar to you?

Would it be the case for folks who don't have any idea what Lovable is.

Familiar UI is similar to what Tailwind or Bootstrap offers, do they do something different to keep it fresh?

Average internet users/consumers are likely used to the default Shopify checkout.