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:

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