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Cool! I like the website theme picker

Thank you - I don't think I explicitly state this anywhere on the website - but all the different themes were made by Claude Code with Dreamtap providing different sources of inspiration - I wasn't involved in designing them at all.

Notably, GPT-5-Codex is significantly worse at this, it has a much stronger drive to make one specific style of website.

I found Claude got to be pretty bad at css, and got better results with codex. how did you prompt cc for getting better results?

The inspirations help, you also need to ask Claude to take it to the next level, or do a very good job.

In terms of polish, I just tell it that Steve Jobs will review the final result, that seems to make it work a lot harder.

Your website gave me a vibe coded impression, but I thought I was being overly paranoid. I'm glad you confirmed it, it seems the clues that give that feeling have some grounds in reality.

It's very interesting how current IAs seems to generate simplistic websites with similar quirks on the first iteration. I guess it's intentional since simple is a good start point.

the first theme i got was some comic sans neon hellscape and until i realized i could re-roll, i had serious doubts about this project lol

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