The vibes are off.

Earlier this week I read Kyle Chayka’s latest for The New Yorker, called “The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet.” It’s about Anthropic’s Claude Design and some of the visual giveaways the tool spits out by default. Notably, Naz Hamid changed the design of his personal site and wrote about avoiding the warm terracotta colors and serif type pitfalls, lest there be any question that the design was created, not generated. Ethan Marcotte also recently shipped a personal site redesign and cited the Chayka article as well in his writeup about the changes. Not everyone is running away from the vibes. In a recent newsletter, Joel Dueck wrote about a few people turning to A.I.-assisted coding to “liberate” their web content from WordPress. He also announced his own web publishing tool called Camp, in which the documentation acknowledges the use of Claude Code to help create the software. I don’t usually enjoy reading about A.I., or writing about it. I’m not required to use…