Ai on Maler Chen

Fixing "AI" UIs

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I help a lot of people get rid of the “AI-ness” in the UIs of their products.

Typically, they try to fix this by doing stuff like:

Asking Codex / Claude Code to “improve the ui/ux”
Adding various skills (e.g. frontend-design )
Going to design websites (e.g. dribbble.com ) and using screenshots as reference

If anything, the approaches above often make the design worse.

I think this is largely because of 3 things happening together:

High Schoolers and AI

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A few months ago, I started working on this program called Lumos Fellows , where we help high schoolers and university students learn how to build and grow apps using AI coding tools.

At the beginning, we weren’t sure there was even a real need for this, because it just seemed so obvious to us that if we were in high school right now and interested in coding, we’d be using AI coding tools like Cursor , Claude Code , Codex , etc.