Has anyone else noticed mobile frontends (native and web) are getting increasingly terrible (as we descend into UX vibe coding?)? I keep noticing I've developed ridiculous coping strategies like constantly copying input to clipboard in case it gets lost when sending.

Mar 19, 2026 Β· 12:46 AM UTC

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I feel like every site I visit has accidental horizontal scroll
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lol yeah. though... I'd lay partial blame at the feet of CSS for that specific one haha
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100%. It feels like nothing is even tested anymore. wtf?
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why test when you can RALPH
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i've felt this for over half a decade
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its been going downhill for sure, but really feels like it's accelerated
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I've resorted to similar techniques for very popular web frontends too, directly from the makers of LLMs
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lol maybe that's the shift - I'm using more frontends from the folks building LLM stuff, and that stuff is all rushed
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New hobby: pressing End to jump directly to the end of landing pages which look like one of the 5 designs every LLM will spit out, and watching the obligatory scroll fade fall apart as I scroll up
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or the copyright that tells you what year the LLM training data was collected rather than the date the page was last updated
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Sounds about right
Brad Westfall@bradwestfall
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What plastics did to manufacturing, LLMs are doing to software engineering. It's fast, it's cheap, it's more bridle, but a machine can make it cheap so we don't care about quality anymore. I call it plastic software
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lol yes and the worst part is we all adapt like it’s normal, clipboard backups and double taps becoming muscle memory. somewhere along the way polish got cooked. @_developit open to connect if you are
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People truly be saying coding is solved and yet we can't get basic focus management right
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the clipboard backup habit is painfully real lol if the app makes you distrust the submit button, the ux is already cooked. followed u btw
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the clipboard strategy is way too real. vibe coding + flaky inputs = stress
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we just scanned 47 popular dev tools for this exact thing. avg accessibility score: 35/100. it's bad preship.dev/report/2026 has the full breakdown β€” @vercel @supabase @Replit all scoring under 50
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The clipboard strategy is so real - I've been doing the same thing. The irony is we've gotten worse at mobile UX even as web standards have improved. Do you think this is more about tooling/framework churn or just less investment in mobile-specific engineering?
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@_developit I’m working on an article around how AI coding tools are changing software development and developer tooling and would really value your perspective. kindly DM me if interested, your insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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Oh wow I don't even realize when I do this.
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Clipboard paranoia is a real UX smell.
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Yes, it makes a good user experience a stronger competitive advantage. AI won't tell about a lot of things regarding design and human experience
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There are some disadvantage of doing ai everywhere, this is one of many. We’ll see more ai doing bad soon!
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No no it looks amazing
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> I keep noticing I've developed ridiculous coping strategies like constantly copying input to clipboard in case it gets lost when sending. I do this regularly.
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Users building workarounds for your app is the feedback loop nobody's reading. The code ships, the flow doesn't.
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