Fade to Blue

Redesigning as a method of interrogation. Okay, okay, okay. I did it again. Sometimes you design a thing, or redesign it, or evolve it, and you think you're there. But this unsettling feeling sinks in, and you think: “I’m not happy with this. What’s the problem?” Friggin' vibes Lo and behold, the structure is fine, but the aesthetic is... bothersome. And why is that? Oh, because my design language has now become what the damn LLMs spit out and regurgitate for every vibe-coded design that’s positioned as “craft.” So the previous design became hard to look at. I wondered how many passing visitors might think my site was made on vibes — that the Klim type I paid for was something out of Google Fonts — because to the untrained eye, who could tell? They see warm beige, terracotta orange, serif fonts, small sans, and VIBES. Damnit, they're all there. It’s a real concern, and I’ve come to notice some lauded “well-designed” sites to be the tells of Claude (and I suppose ChatGPT). If you don’t…