How to Replace Your Agent’s Generic Taste With Your Own
Ask a coding agent to design a SaaS product and you can usually predict what arrives: cream or near-black background, muted orange button, serif headline, centered hero, three feature cards, rounded corners everywhere and, of course, a sparkle icon for AI.
You did not request those decisions. The agent filled the gaps with safe defaults.
Models have seen many of the same websites. Coding agents reach for familiar templates, component libraries and design conventions. AI-generated templates are now reproducing many of those patterns across the web. Preference-based post-training adds another pressure toward responses that work acceptably across many users and tasks.
None of this means the agent is broken. Generic taste is a reasonable starting point for a general-purpose system. Your product, however, has a narrower audience and a more specific point of view.
I noticed this while reviewing screens generated for my own products. Nothing was technically wrong with...
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