Designer fed up with AI-generated UI inconsistency plans BaseUI refactor with strict rules
tomjohndesign · x · 2026-09-07
Designer tomjohndesign says AI coding tools are by default bad at clean UI architecture, churning out inconsistent layouts and messy information architecture. His fix: dump every scrap of UI into a single doc for review, add strict rules, gut much of the app's UI, and refactor onto BaseUI to constrain future AI generation.
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