Vibe-coded websites are the muzak of the web.

Thanks to CHUTTERSNAP for the photo in the hero.

I am sick of seeing the most generic, boring, average, clone-stamped UIs everywhere.. And AI is just making it worse.

Look, I get it: UI/UX is hard, especially for complex stuff, but you know what?

That doesn't mean it has to be fucking boring.

I've made it clear that I want to bring back a more creative web; I love visually interesting designs, and have for a very long time.. And it's not just web developers who like to look at fun shit! I have had plenty of non-tech-savvy folks over the years send me links to sites and say "Look how cool this is!"

Still, the core web seems to be embracing the muzak of it all.

For those of you who don't know, "Muzak" is a sort of generic "background" music that's designed to not stand out and be as inoffensive as possible. Think elevators, hold music, or even what you hear at the grocery store (although sometimes you hear bangers like Jimi Hendrix's Red House, or some early Chicago).

That's what vibe coding is designed to produce: The most generic, commercially-successful shit-paste that it can autocomplete.

Look, if you want to quickly prototype something before the bubble bursts? I get it; Using AI to build a front-end can sometimes be useful for some little hobby project. It's not my jam (as someone who specializes in front-end dev, I fucking love coding cool UI shit), but beyond the lack of sustainability for the AI industry there is the issue of how.. fucking boring as fucking fuck the shit it spits out is, it can occasionally serve a purpose (at the cost of communities, jobs, environments, and the economy).

And that's not even counting the sometimes hilariously/horrifically wrong design decisions it makes (or, even better, when a fucking AI can't draw a goddamned circle).

I'm not saying you have to create un-usable insane interfaces that eat bandwidth and battery like a toddler eats carpet cereal; What I am saying is that you should embrace the idea that there is room to try something unique on the web still, crafting a unique and memoriable experience that won't be forgotten 15 minutes later after the user leaves your site.