> I can smell an AI-generated frontend from 10 miles away. This isn't a joke. It's a cry for help.
I can smell LLM-generated prose from 10 miles away, too. Granted, plenty of it doesn't stand out, but still.
> But as people used it, we learned two things:
> [Classically AI-formatted two-element bullet-point list omitted]
> While Boost is still a valuable tool in our arsenal, perfect for kickstarting new projects with strong, non-purple aesthetics, it taught us a crucial lesson: you can only do so much with prompting and post-processing. A Band-Aid can cover a wound, but it can't cure it.
"Strong, non-purple aesthetics". Really.
When you use AI, you can only "escape" the AI idiosyncrasies that you know and care about.
Also, this isn't the authors "escaping"; it's them providing a feature to allow their end users to do so. Supposedly. But really they're just hyping up the fact that they spent a bit of time prompting AI to do something other than the Tailwind default, and then set up a system to make it easier for users to integrate those changes instead of the defaults that the AI would tend to generate automatically.
I can smell LLM-generated prose from 10 miles away, too. Granted, plenty of it doesn't stand out, but still.
> But as people used it, we learned two things:
> [Classically AI-formatted two-element bullet-point list omitted]
> While Boost is still a valuable tool in our arsenal, perfect for kickstarting new projects with strong, non-purple aesthetics, it taught us a crucial lesson: you can only do so much with prompting and post-processing. A Band-Aid can cover a wound, but it can't cure it.
"Strong, non-purple aesthetics". Really.
When you use AI, you can only "escape" the AI idiosyncrasies that you know and care about.
Also, this isn't the authors "escaping"; it's them providing a feature to allow their end users to do so. Supposedly. But really they're just hyping up the fact that they spent a bit of time prompting AI to do something other than the Tailwind default, and then set up a system to make it easier for users to integrate those changes instead of the defaults that the AI would tend to generate automatically.