What’s the Hardest Part of Generating UI as a Frontend Developer?

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Introduction

I recently redesigned the Texavor. After the initial launch, one of the brutal pieces of feedback for the landing page was that it was too generic. It feels like it lacks a design system. I didn’t realize until someone else pointed it out. I built an initial design system, but eventually, AI hallucinated, and it created its own things.

At first, AI feels like a superpower. It generates codes fast and even with precision. It fixes syntax errors on its own. Your code implements features that take a month in a day. But after a while, you start noticing patterns:

Repeated “Saas” looking hero section
Predicatable card grids
generic gradient and blur effects
Some pages follow a different system, while some follow a different design system The design it generates looks good, but lacks the taste and structure that you established earlier.

I feel like generating a non-generic and unique UI is kind of the hardest thing when building UI as a front-end Developer.