Designer has every new Gemini model redesign his site's hero shader — and it keeps delivering
AIandDesign · x · 2026-11-13
Marco van Hylckama Vlieg, a product designer with stints at Google, Yahoo, Walmart Labs and Kohl's, shares a running personal benchmark: every time Google ships a new Gemini model, he asks it to make the hero shader on his site ai-created.com more beautiful.
He reports the models "keep delivering" — the current result is an interactive, mouse-reactive shader he calls "absolutely mesmerizing." It doubles as a longitudinal test of frontend code generation quality across model generations.
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