The one-line prompt that strips AI slop from a UI: 'make it look like a Qt app' (envs.net)
Instead of detailed design specs, the author gives the model a single directive: build it in the style of a Qt application. On a 270-to-win electoral map, it removed almost all the slop feeling, and it generalized to his other projects.
The thread's best explanation: Qt is dense in training data, so 'Qt app' is a tight, coherent point in latent space. Modern web is a million conflicting styles, so the average of all of them is, by definition, slop.
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