So I’ve been a software engineer for a decade. The last couple of months my way of working has completely changed. I’m at a point where I hardly touch the code by hand anymore. Opus has been amazing. I let it write a detailed plan and then I review it and suggest changes. After implementation I review the code and most of the time I don’t really need to comment much on it. Complex domain logic or state management that I used to break my head over for weeks can now be done in hours. But my experience with writing UI has been tedious. As tedious as it has always been. I came from mobile dev and I’ve built hundreds of screens, so I’ve developed a certain feel for it. It’s just that whatever comes out of CC is bland and generic. I’ve tried a lot to improve it. I’ve set up proper design systems. I’ve tried Google Stitch and Claude Design. I’ve used ChatGPT to generate design images. Whatever comes out of those tools is just as flat and it takes a lot of effort to make it stand out. Then I port it into my actual project and it gets dragged right back into blandness. Right now I use low reasoning on fast mode to create 1 UI element at a time. That’s the only way to get it how I want it to be. It feels very much like how I used to write UI. The only reason I’m using AI is because I’m working on a web project and I’m not that familiar with the syntax. If it were a mobile app project I’d be faster writing it by hand. It’s less typing. I’m just wondering. Do others have this same experience? Am I doing something wrong? Can anything be done to improve my workflow? Or is that just the nature of the beast, that good UI always comes down to slow iteration on small pieces? submitted by /u/hupseflups
Originally posted by u/hupseflups on r/ClaudeCode