/continue-rant (raw late night cant sleep iphone stream style) why I think design in general is different compared to code and why it’s harder to give models and people “taste” code has to work. thats about it. on or off. of course there are complexities but at the end of the day (almost) no user will go inspect the code and its intricacies. whereas design is seen and felt by all, and everyone has an opinion on it. good design is in the eye of the beholder, people rarely agree on what’s good There are people buying ferraris saying its hands down the best design while others think a prius is just a better one, for them a ferrari is just too loud, too obnixious. which one is “better”? we care about design on a different level, its about emotional bonding, signaling and lots of context and nuance all these bits are built into the product and all its details by people iterating thousands of times on it, massaging all of it together into a coherent package the process needs a lot of decisions and each decision point combined with “good taste” gets better, but with “bad taste”, or “generic” aka ai safe middle ground taste it goes downhill it can never become remarkable (past maybe a short term gimmick stage) most of us know design by committee is the worst type of design, ending up in the worst products ( if you’re not sure what I mean check this - “the bradley” youtu.be/aXQ2lO3ieBA ) probably most of us have seen people who just cant get out of their own way when making decisions as an extreme, some people hire others (for lots of $$$ ) then fight them every step of the way just to get what they initially wanted I don’t see how a nearly free, sycophantic LLM, that is drawn to averages will produce any decent work, especially in these kinds of hands. Im talking absolutes, but we all have some “bad client” traits, or just simple lack of knowledge unless we learn ourselves the LLMS only magnify these gaps. gaps aka we become the bottleneck. filling gaps, learning takes time, takes $, and still that only gets you to “ok work”, theres a lot more steps to “great work” and ofc people will be able to copy great work, just as you can buy didibao shoes that look like adidas, or even a perfect copy fake adidas, but enough people still buy adidas. for the brand, for the promise of getting something of quality, meaning all the coherent decisions that went into it, from material to sewing, to small design details. and maybe a face, someone they know and respect who says “yeppp this is good” and we didn’t even hit the meaning area yet (that I think will grow massively) , when you just want to give certain people money because you believe in them and want to contribute or help somehow, just help them do more of what they’re doing (which might be the purest ways of making a living) All this to say I dont see how the “bradley generators” will erase all this any time soon. And indies have a head start on all this because they are used to adapting and everyone is “indie”now but besides software I’m also building an eco farm and make furniture- so strong opinions loosely held lol