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The only time it failed is when my prompt and goal was bad. I told it to swap expo-audio with react-native-track-player and it was able to do it in one-shot. Implement Revenue Cat and it did it in one shot. I do task by task like all the other agent tools recommended. The harness I made doe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.1 Pro"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["ai ui design", "website redesign", "design generation"], "compared": [{"slug": "claude-design", "name": "Claude Design", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [{"id": 754363041, "item_id": 47147690, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147690", "by": "sparkco123", "date": "2026-02-24", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "async agent messaging with no broker", "excerpt": "Built three tools while building our AI assistant (OpenClaw) \u2014 kept hitting the same walls with agent context. 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As my main expertise is not this, I need some tool to depend on to ground my projects somehow. Even though stitch by google and claude design are not perfect, they give me some starting point. And then, after building the actual working project, will iterate until I like the look of it. This is how I'm using these right now. 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Some of the new ones do create brand design systems. Check these out: https://stitch.withgoogle.com https://labs.google.com/u/0/pomelli https://lovable.dev Also Claude Code is also fantastic for design Going from a one-prompt to a great design isn't really realistic. You'll need some iterations in design just like proof of concepts (for iteration) for engineering work to r", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why hasn't AI improved design quality the way it improved dev speed?"}, {"id": 764914368, "item_id": 47807148, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47807148", "by": "firefoxd", "date": "2026-04-17", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using stich from Gemini, and just plain zAi for helping redesign my website.", "excerpt": "I've been using stich from Gemini, and just plain zAi for helping redesign my website. You can use the generated code to copy and paste the design to fit your own templates, but that's a pain. 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The only time it failed is when my prompt and goal was bad. I told it to swap expo-audio with react-native-track-player and it was able to do it in one-shot. Implement Revenue Cat and it did it in one shot. I do task by task like all the other agent tools recommended. The harness I made doe", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Gemini 3.1 Pro"}, {"id": 737135536, "item_id": 46070971, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46070971", "by": "xnx", "date": "2025-11-27", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "There are emerging tools that focus on AI UI creation workflow like", "excerpt": "Good point. There are emerging tools that focus on AI UI creation workflow like https://stitch.withgoogle.com/", "context": "", "use_case": "AI UI design", "switched_from": "", "story": "The gruesome new data on tech jobs"}]}