AI code generators produce unstructured slop easily when it comes to UI. Ask one to build a page and it will generate a unique constellation of divs with raw Tailwind classes — different spacing, different layout, slightly different everything — every single time. The same conceptual element rendered twelve ways across twelve files because there is no structural reason not to. The token cost of inlining is zero. The cost of composing is non-zero. The AI optimizes for token cost. ...

Stop reading what your coding agent says. Read what it produces. Coding agents are here to produce code. Not chatter about it. The textual output — the stream of “I’ll fix this by doing X, then Y, then Z” — is noise. The bad feedback loop Instead of evaluating the agent’s output (the code, the diff, the structural changes), you evaluate what it tells you about its output. The agent sounds confident. You approve. The code is wrong. ...