<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: New comments on &#34;Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine&#34;</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47985750</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 09:39:27 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/item?id=47985750" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrei_says_ in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who also designs, the few web page designs I saw produced by LLMs were ugly, generic, not accessible… unusable.<p>Even after prompting, I had to throw away all. No useful ideas just slop.<p>I’m sure there’s a lot to philosophize about a distant future when these work, but right now a waste of time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 16:29:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010913</link><dc:creator>andrei_says_</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48010913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by doomkaiser21 in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design:<p>A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.<p>Presentation will always be important as long as humans are involved because we're biologically wired to be attracted to good-looking things. Now I do think that what we associate with "good" will violently change, as it always does (look at fashion).<p>My guess is that verbosity will be an immediate turnoff, em dashes another immediate turnoff, and we'll value ooga booga conciseness over all other aesthetics. We've already unknowingly begun to move in that direction with the minimalism trend.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 19:39:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000588</link><dc:creator>doomkaiser21</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000588</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000588</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by andrekandre in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
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preferably in caveman prose to save tokens, shit is getting expensive...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 16:36:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998672</link><dc:creator>andrekandre</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47998672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Garlef in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It could also be that It just shifts the burden from execution to strategy.<p>It's not enough anymore to have someone push nice pixels for you.<p>You'll need to consider if your design aligns with how you want to position yourself wrt to other players in your space.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 11:05:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995712</link><dc:creator>Garlef</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995712</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tipiirai in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is a deterministic palette, and why is it so important here?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 04:17:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993293</link><dc:creator>tipiirai</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by AntonyGarand in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like this is an artifact / deliberate smoothing: Other tracker sites have unrounded data, and the github API does show a consistent growth instead of bursts at rounded intervals.<p><a href="https://www.startrail.dev/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&legend=below" rel="nofollow">https://www.startrail.dev/?repos=nexu-io%2Fopen-design&legen...</a><p>The growth remains very artificial, a steady line instead of the real jitter than real stars would have.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 02:27:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992720</link><dc:creator>AntonyGarand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by veritascap in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything goes back to plain text. Would be kind of nice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 01:44:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992500</link><dc:creator>veritascap</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992500</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992500</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by timcobb in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everything is already pretty homogenous I wouldn't blame AI for this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 01:44:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992498</link><dc:creator>timcobb</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992498</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992498</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by indemnity in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The apparent quality of our pull request messages and documentation is sky high (at least from a language and grammar perspective), but I do miss the days of hand crafted prose, it was easier to tell the low effort crap from the gold.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:42:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992060</link><dc:creator>indemnity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992060</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by garethsprice in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One use of design is signaling, but not all - successful design is that which fulfills its purpose.<p>Many designed things do not need to be differentiated and will benefit from a homogenous AI-powered design (internal documentation, local service business communications, etc) in the same way that desktop publishing replaced hand or type-written notes but did not replace professional designers (although it did require them to learn digital tooling).<p>For designs that do benefit from being differentiated it'll be interesting to see what happens. If anything, AI homogeneity provides more opportunity for talented human designers who can provide "design alpha" beyond whatever trends the LLMs sucked up in their last crawl.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 00:11:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991864</link><dc:creator>garethsprice</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smeej in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Almost 20 years ago, a professor I had in grad school agreed to let me submit my very detailed outline rather than filling in all the text to turn it into paragraphs. It's still the way I write presentations where I'll be speaking.<p>Maybe the "fill in the paragraphs" step was always unnecessary and we've finally stopped making people do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 23:04:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991489</link><dc:creator>smeej</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991489</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by smeej in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For some reason, I read "LGTM" as "Let's Go to Market," and spooked myself with the realization that that's absolutely the way this is all headed.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 23:02:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991470</link><dc:creator>smeej</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991470</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991470</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by pojzon in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When there is a buyer, sellers will show up.<p>This only exposes human nature.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 21:21:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990669</link><dc:creator>pojzon</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ori_b in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The amount of shit that I need to deal with so that I can pay the bills has gone up markedly, and promises to continue going up. The things the tech industry are building are making things worse for me. Please stop making my life worse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 20:56:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990419</link><dc:creator>ori_b</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990419</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990419</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by singpolyma3 in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nothing stops humans from doing what they enjoy</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 20:40:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990277</link><dc:creator>singpolyma3</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whattheheckheck in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The medium becomes the message</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 19:12:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989452</link><dc:creator>whattheheckheck</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989452</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989452</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by afro88 in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>True. But this makes it easier to stand out in a sea of monotony.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 19:04:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989374</link><dc:creator>afro88</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989374</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by maddmann in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This seems bloated to me</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 18:54:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989277</link><dc:creator>maddmann</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989277</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989277</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rossjudson in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No thing-you-don't-want. No second-thing-you-don't want. Just thing-you-want, the-way-you-want-it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2026 18:40:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989157</link><dc:creator>rossjudson</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by bryanrasmussen in "Open Design: Use Your Coding Agent as a Design Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://medium.com/luminasticity/art-as-a-tool-for-storing-mana-69d90f1a014b" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/luminasticity/art-as-a-tool-for-storing-m...</a><p>>The modern world is design rich and art poor. That is to say that with the introduction of mass production it became possible to distribute everywhere items that in previous eras would have been seen as full of Mana, but now, not unique — they have none.<p>That was in reference to mass produced design, but it seems to apply 10X to AI produced Art.</p>
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