{"slug": "ask-hn-how-to-stop-your-coding-agent-from-creating-just-ai-slop-for-the-ui-ux", "title": "Ask HN: How to stop your coding agent from creating just AI slop for the UI/UX?", "summary": "A Hacker News user asked how to prevent coding agents from generating poor UI/UX designs, with commenters suggesting providing reference screenshots or design inspirations and explicitly instructing the AI on what not to do.", "body_md": "Hacker News\nnew\n|\npast\n|\ncomments\n|\nask\n|\nshow\n|\njobs\n|\nsubmit\nlogin\nAsk HN: How to stop your coding agent from creating just AI slop for the UI/UX?\n1 point\nby\nAlanAAG\n34 minutes ago\n|\nhide\n|\npast\n|\nfavorite\n|\n2 comments\nCoding agents are increasingly taking over tasks for us, but ui/ux is still something that just keeps looking like plain ai slop. I am sure theres ways to solve this, how??\nhelp\nminimaxir\n4 minutes ago\n|\nnext\n[–]\nGive it a reference (e.g. a screenshot) or a design inspiration. You have to explicitly tell LLMs what you\ndon't\nwant, they are not mind-readers.\nreply\nandrewstuart\n31 minutes ago\n|\nprev\n[–]\nTell Claude to use its web design skill and give you 10 styles to choose from. Point it to a style you like.\nreply\nGuidelines\n|\nFAQ\n|\nLists\n|\nAPI\n|\nSecurity\n|\nLegal\n|\nApply to YC\n|\nContact\nSearch:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-to-stop-your-coding-agent-from-creating-just-ai-slop-for-the-ui-ux", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48601647", "published_at": "2026-06-19 18:32:12+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-19 19:07:23.743460+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-agents", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Hacker News", "Claude"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-to-stop-your-coding-agent-from-creating-just-ai-slop-for-the-ui-ux", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-to-stop-your-coding-agent-from-creating-just-ai-slop-for-the-ui-ux.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-to-stop-your-coding-agent-from-creating-just-ai-slop-for-the-ui-ux.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-how-to-stop-your-coding-agent-from-creating-just-ai-slop-for-the-ui-ux.jsonld"}}