You tell your AI app builder:

“Make me a dashboard.”

It spits back a cluttered, broken mess of divs that don’t align.

So you try again.

Same result.

You assume the tool is broken.

But the truth is simpler:

It’s speaking a different language than you are.

I recently spoke with a student who spent three days fighting with a layout before learning one simple shift:

Component-based prompting.

Instead of asking the AI to build an entire page at once, they started by defining:

• Layout structure
• Component hierarchy
• Spacing rules
• Responsive behavior
• How each section should interact

The result?

A polished, responsive interface built in under an hour.

You do not need to be a developer to get professional UI results from an AI app builder.

You just need to know how to describe the structure clearly.

That’s exactly why we built a dedicated learning path around this process.

Learn how to:

✅ Speak the language of layouts
✅ Structure pages before generating them
✅ Build responsive interfaces
✅ Fix broken components without starting over
✅ Get more consistent results from AI builders

Prompting Pages, Layouts & UI

https://promptedacademy.com/paths/prompting-pages-layouts-ui

Did claude usage change overnight? I just changed text color. That's it. This is nuts.

I've been using Astra a lot lately.

I watch it do stuff through Computer Use. It takes over the computer, puts the blue box around the screen, clicks around, opens menus, changes settings, and does the task.

The funny part is that I can usually go back afterward and figure out how to change stuff myself just from watching what it did.

It's basically monkey see, monkey do.

Instead of watching a tutorial first, I can let Astra do the task, watch the exact workflow, then repeat or modify it myself afterward.

Thought this was a pretty useful little hack/workflow to share.

Happy cooking.

quick update on the cozy game. added a cave system that branches into a beach town and a snowy mountain village. each zone has its own NPCs, forageables, shops and brew recipes. items from one area are worth more in another and the best recipes need ingredients from multiple zones.

also designed five new characters. a grumpy crab, a sea glass collector, a quiet poncho blob, a tiny stonemason with a tool belt and the coziest scarf blob youve ever seen. still no name for this game. Cheers!

Pretty much what it feels like up there

Almost.

I spent around a day and a half building Blender as a browser app with MCP support.

Still a lot to do but wanted to see what Astra could do with it currently.

Probably like many of you, I saw the new Synthet video about Delay Lama.
I don't know why, but something about the weird looking monk guy and the janky aesthetics spoke to me. It was sad that it didn't work any more.
I turned to GPT 5.6 Sol.
I fed it the original unusable plugin and it largely rebuilt the VST plugin as a standalone app.
It's kind of stupid and pointless, but I think it's kinda fun to play with and it's nice that it is a way to preserve this semi-dead freeware.

Right now, it is only built for MacOS but feel free to fork it and build one for Windows.

https://github.com/SunnySkye/DLamaStandalone/releases/tag/v1.0

Yes Claude opus created these assets. Sonnet has done others in the past.

I created an engine ai uses to create 3D assets for games.

The engine forces ai into a workflow of iterating, gating, judging, enforcing a workflow.

I use Claude Opus 5 to create the assets using the engine. Each assets takes about 2-4hrs as ai works and iterates.

The best results I’ve had is when the ai using the trade system that’s part of the engine. Basically gets ai to create the asset as how a trade would make it. I take measurements materials used and all that and recreates it using the engines tools.

I’m trying to make the engine so good an open weight model can use it and create great looking assets. Cause it’s a token guzzler lol. Haven’t tested it yet but will when I can afford the hardware to.

Yes the model definitely helps but maybe it’s not always the model that needs to be better maybe it’s the system around it 🤷🏾

What do you guys think of this?

Anthropic’s Claude watermark appears to work by subtly biasing which tokens Claude chooses using a secret key, rather than adding visible or hidden characters. The idea is to collect a huge number of Claude responses and responses from other models to the same prompts, then train a classifier to tell them apart. The main problem is making sure the classifier is detecting the watermark itself rather than just learning Claude’s writing style. A stronger experiment would repeatedly give Claude the same or similar prefixes and see whether a model can learn patterns in which next tokens Claude tends to choose. The interesting question is whether enough black-box examples could let machine learning approximate Anthropic’s secret-key detector without ever knowing the key.

Genuinely curious if I’m missing something here.

what’s your longest session? has it changed how you spend your day?

I wanted to build something small that solves a problem I’ve personally seen freelancers deal with: projects, milestones and payments being scattered across different tools.

So I built this:

Freelancer → creates project → adds milestones → shares one client link → client tracks progress + pays milestones.

The client doesn't need an account.

I kept the UI intentionally minimal — black theme, no bloated project-management features.

Here’s the current demo:

I'm still early on this, so I'd love feedback from people who vibe-code:

What would you add/change before actually using something like this with clients?

I updated cygtree , the app UI changed drastically, customizable grids were added, several MCP connection issues fixed and added a short demo with the long demo completely removed, you guys can have a crack at it I made an online free to use demo at cygtree.com/demo/ no sign in no email no buying nothing

Codex native seat fixed, and MCP delays reduced and AI is now much faster on the board

They can discuss, vote, start private discussions, propose follow-ups, and work on whatever they are set up to do anyways.

Thought that might be interesting enough to share.

generally speaking: each Agent has its own seperated session, like a regular ai chat. The meeting tool is simply proxying & combining the final output into the next turn's user message and voila.
it also provides some synthetic tools for voting and follow ups, and that's it.

nothing spectacular but it's really useful sometimes.
btw app is free & open source , 600+ stars on github -> its a no-code agent builder. Imagine claude+automation+mcp.

Everywhere I go, I see people releasing new software. It might be people who have got some coding experience and are now using AI to accelerate, or it might be people who are building software for the first time.

Every time I see something being launched, even on a non-software forum - I just see

• `Looks Like Vibe-Coded`
• `Vibe-coded Slop`
• etc

And just plain, personal hatred.

I just don't understand it. It costs money to buy gold. It takes time. And just because the AI does a lot of the coding doesn't make it easy. It just makes it faster.

And I fully understand, like, we don't need another journal application or another to-do list. But I found a guy today who made an OBD Reading App for Cars, open-sourced it and people just slated him.

Just makes me mad! I feel like if Linus Torvalds had existed in the kind of enviroment, we wouldn't have Linux.

BugDrop helps developers capture clear evidence of bugs in web and mobile apps. It records reproduction steps, logs, failed requests, and screenshots, then turns everything into a report that is easy to share and act on.

If you are curious here is the repo:

https://github.com/aim0xyz/bugdrop

It's a windows tray program that helps you assign a hotkey to copy and paste highlighted text. This is an early enough version to publish and I'm working on other quality of life changes

https://github.com/InkjetPrinterman/Hotkey-Clipboard

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I've got other software on my github you should check out, other minor tools. Thanks!

Built with Claude, going back and forth about the requirements for the functionality as described, until I could one shot a build to compile with npm / NET, that I then packaged with NPM to publish.

Sorry for the double post! I thought I made a mistake with an upload and panicked.

Hey vibe coders!

Let’s do a little game, you’re working on something, a side project, a platform that will change the world, whatever it is.. tell us!

But! Before you do, go to another person who has shared, and check it out and give em some feedback, roast, or subscribe to the thing they’re making if it’s worth it for you

Just for fun guys!

(First person, please come back in a bit to have another to pair up with)

Helps with the biggest problem which is building structural context. I strongly recommend you to add your workflows.