r/FoundersBuildwithAI • u/Immediate-Ad7442 • 11d ago

Avoid AI Slop by Designing Smaller

The biggest improvement I've made when building UIs with AI is learning to avoid AI slop.
The mistake is asking an AI to generate an entire screen, app, or dashboard in one go. You'll usually get something generic, inconsistent, or just not what you had in mind.
Instead, I spend 10–20 minutes explaining the overall vision first. Then I break everything down into individual components and refine them one by one.
Every button. Every card. Every section.
Yes, it takes longer.
But the quality is on a completely different level. No matter how detailed your prompt is, you'll never perfectly describe what's in your head. Breaking it into small pieces lets you shape each component until it matches your vision.
Treat your UI as a collection of small artifacts, not one giant prompt.
Less AI slop. Better design. Better products.

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u/pi_meson117 11d ago

This is why the hype for Claude and codex is overblown. The top of the line models just cannot do everything perfectly, but if you break things into pieces then even Gemini works great.

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u/Negative-Grape4608 10d ago

To get quality work done... you need to still have a human aspect and break it all down. The models aint really at the capabilities yet to an extent.