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How is that a sign of a site built with AI if most people would use the defaults the same way AI is doing ?

> It's like Bootstrap 10 years ago

What do you mean there ?

Highly pervasive, first step people do before starting new projects is setting up stuff like Tailwind, Shadcn; they also don't bother much with modifying how it looks since it looks decent out of the box causing similar looking websites everywhere; similar to how the Bootstrap craze was back from 2012-2015/6; where all websites just looked the same[0]

[0]: Example of the common "Bootstrap style" https://getbootstrap.com/2.3.1/assets/img/examples/bootstrap...

A lot of the sites that use shadcn's default styling are AI-generated. The people that use it in hand-written code usually customize the appearance at least a little bit.

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