Ouroboros

I’ve been building a lot with AI, specifically Claude Code, for the past few months. The biggest project I’ve been working on is the Ouroboros app. I’ve also done quite a deep dive on this site, using Claude Design to come up with this current iteration, as well as using Claude Code to roll my own CMS for this site. In addition to that, there’s another little service site I’m building that’s a bit under wraps until it launches. I’m abuzz with everything I’ve been building.

And yet, I see the cracks. Designs are similar, the patterns ubiquitous, the endless gradients or sprinkled em dashes in prose like confetti strewn about Time Square on January first. The current talk for the past month is that taste is still required, is still what sets sites and programs and designs apart from this AI slop¹.

I think, eventually, people will begin to understand that AI, in its current form, is truly only a tool and not the death of creativity or connection. These past few months, I don’t really write code like I used to. I still hop into codebases to make fixes/changes that is faster than explaining to the …