Applying this scoring to recent ShowHN submissions shows that about a third of the submissions show medium to heavy design slop: https://slopcop.adriankrebs.ch/show

How the scoring works:

- A headless browser loads each site (Playwright)

- A small in-page script analyzes the DOM and reads computed styles

- Every pattern is a deterministic CSS or DOM check.

There are false positives, but my manual QA run verified it’s maybe 5-10%.

Is design slop bad? Not really, just uninspired. After all, the web was never about the fanciest design, and before the AI era, everything looked like Bootstrap.

However, there is a difference between trying to craft your own design and just shipping with whatever defaults the LLMs output. And the same has been the case pre-LLM when using CSS/HTML templates.

I guess people will get back to crafting beautiful designs to stand out from the slop. On the other hand, I’m not sure how much design will still matter once AI agents are the primary users of the web.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48821493

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I also scored the recent ShowHN submissions on https://slopcop.adriankrebs.ch/show, which shows that about half of all submissions show medium to heavy design slop.

This should not trigger a discussion about AI-assisted coding (this project is too), but about visual design traits common with AI-generated frontends.

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Kadoa is the web data layer for finance. We use coding agents to build, monitor, and repair deterministic data pipelines for investment firms, so they can make faster and better decisions.

All founders have spent years in the trenches writing web scraping and ETL code and still do it almost every single day. We are growing fast, have a drama-free and distraction-light environment, and try to minimize the distance between the code & data you ship and the customers who use it.

We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship, data, and AI. We're a lean remote team and are looking for low-ego generalists with high agency that can help us build a platform that combines the most intuitive UX with world-class accuracy and performance.

Open roles:

- Web Scraping Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/web-scraping-engineer

- Senior Software Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/senior-software-engineer

If that sounds like you, please email me at (adrian at kadoa dot com) and mention HN in the subject line. Please include any relevant Github projects.

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I'm also following the very inspirational journey of the former Gitlab CEO who battles cancer by founding companies with his own money [0].

[0] https://sytse.com/cancer/

Kadoa is the web data layer for finance. We use the best coding agents to produce the most accurate web datasets, so the leading investment firms can make faster and better decisions.

All founders have spent years in the trenches writing web scraping and ETL code and still do it almost every single day. We are growing fast, have a drama-free and distraction-light environment, and try to minimize the distance between the code & data you ship and the customers who use it.

We are looking for people who share our passion for software craftsmanship, web data, and AI.

Open roles:

- Web Scraping Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/web-scraping-engineer

- Senior Software Engineer: https://www.kadoa.com/careers/senior-software-engineer

If that sounds like you, please email me at (adrian at kadoa dot com) and mention HN in the subject line.

The data is lagged (median 28 days from trade to disclosure, and 19% miss this deadline), but there's still interesting patterns to explore.

Repo: https://github.com/kadoa-org/congress-trading-monitor

Let me know if you have any suggestions for improvements!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281983

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The tool systematically scores any website for 16 common AI design patterns by running a Playwright script that checks deterministic CSS/DOM rules.

Here are the results for the ShowHN submissions: https://www.adriankrebs.ch/ai-design-scorer-report.html

This is how you can run it yourself (example is the latest Show HN submission):

  node cli.js https://engagemii.com/aeo

  Heavy · score 38/100 · 6/16 patterns

  Triggered:
   • Vibe purple
   • Gradients
   • Perma dark
   • 1·2·3 steps
   • Eyebrow pill
   • FAQ

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Reminds me of the early days of World of Warcraft, when servers went down frequently because Blizzard couldn't keep up with all the load. Everyone was frustrated but of course nobody stopped playing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47864393

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[0] https://karpathy.ai/jobs/

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