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People don't realize that you're allowed to tell LLMs/agents "no." In the real world, it's a professional faux pas to question the design of a creative coworker when you may not know design better, but LLMs/agents are not your coworkers.

Don't like abuse of serif fonts? "NEVER use serif fonts."

Don't like the gaudy color palettes? "Use this color palette with a white-dominant background"

Don't like the marketing fluff? "Remove all non-salient text from this app."

You're encouraged to be picky.



> it's a professional faux pas to question the design of a creative coworker when you may not know design better

Huh. I've been committing this professional faux pas for years without consequences. There are simply a lot of bad designers out there.

I'm not sure I agree with this particular point, but, the rest of your comment I wholeheartedly agree with.


And there are a lot of designers who are good, but only in a different medium. Being able to make a good flyer, a good trade fair booth and a good website are completely different skills, but all too often the same designer is expected to do all of those, and more


I admit that those type of politics depend on workplace culture and I worked at two highly creative-oriented companies previously, and in both companies any attempt to point out issues in the design resulted in a "this is according to design spec; not fixing."


Totally fair.


Not a designer but the worst feedback you can get from your coworkers is nothing.


Posts like this are why I don’t trust many pro-AI takes on here.


my agents.md says “If I see ‘indigo-500’ anywhere in your code I will fucking kill you.”


We are now on the Roko's Basilisk list


Ha, on Android that wouldn't help you, already tried hahahah




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