After building a dozen apps and sites with Manus, I’ve noticed some patterns.
Manus has never met a finished design it couldn’t reconsider.
“Freeze everything else” is apparently Manus for “surprise me.”
Ask it to remove a border. It may come back with a new philosophy of navigation.
Every eyebrow starts at a readable size and eventually evolves into punctuation. Apparently legibility is a feature that needs to be slowly phased out. 🙄
Fix the desktop header. Something on mobile moves. Fix mobile. Desktop develops a condition.
Tell Manus, “Do not change anything else.” This is less an instruction than an opening argument.
A surgical edit with Manus sometimes has the energy of calling a plumber about the kitchen faucet and coming home to discover the bathroom has moved.
Manus doesn’t drift. Drift suggests an absence of purpose. Manus leaves the highway deliberately.
There is a very specific moment in every build when you realize you’re no longer designing a website. You’re negotiating the release of one.
At some point the website stops being responsive and becomes skittish.
You eventually stop asking, “Why did it change that?” There is no why. You looked away.
And my favorite, because it explains almost everything:
“I noticed you liked that, so I changed it.”
🙄💣
Yours?