Ask Claude why it's bad at web design and it explains its template-shaped training prior
ColdPlankton9273 · reddit · 2026-09-16
A user who repeatedly got generic template-style websites from Claude Code asked Claude directly why web design is its hardest task. Claude's self-analysis: web pages are the single most represented artifact in its training data, and the mode of that distribution is the template (hero, subtitle, button, logo row, three cards) — a strong prior that prose-level design instructions can't overcome. It also notes this is acknowledged at product level: Anthropic ships a frontend-design skill whose stated purpose is avoiding "templated defaults." The author concludes this makes sense given training data is essentially scraped websites.
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