Comment by E-Reverance 14 hours ago
A lot of the styling looks very similar to some default choices popular llm's make; a default which I had never seen prior to their existence.
Also the ai-generated textures make it all the more likely that the rest of site is vibe-coded.
I'm not anti-ai per se, but using the defaults does affect my (and presumably others) impression of the quality of the site
Another example : https://shaderacademy.com/challenge/height_map_1
The expected output to the quiz does not seem like something someone would intentionally choose
You didn't present some context on how you reached this content on the website. It looks as if it was an exercise to produce a shader detecting edges based on derivative functions or just sampling neighboring texture pixels.
I'd rather the author spend time on what they want to make (shader quiz) instead of CSS.
As someone who has always despised front-end programming, I would be more than satisfied if LLMs turned out to only be particularly good at that. Given the number of pages we've all seen where the content as well as the front-end are obviously 90% AI-generated, I understand the knee-jerk reaction against sites clearly designed by AI, but it's unfortunate that leads to a negative reaction against (or even just a difficulty distinguishing) sites where people share a tool/knowledge of their own that they never would have shared if it would have taken even just a few days of futzing around with CSS/figuring out the latest JS framework...
I think people under-estimate how much of an effect the unreasonable complexity of modern front-end programming has had, especially outside of tech. My wife works in the non-profit world and I have been completely blown away by how much "designers" barely able to tweak a wordpress plugin get away with charging... She's an "AI skeptic" herself, but almost cried with joy when I showed her V0 [0].
[0] Not as good at coding as others, but probably the single most impressive AI product I've played with from a UX perspective.
I don't think they made most of the quizzes either (see link in my other reply)
No? The quiz is clearly some kind of edge detection filter. The light blue "grid" is the background to let you know there are transparent pixels in the expected output. It looks like something designed with intention to me. They just forgot to put the text description.
Click on where it says DIFF; its not edge detection
More likely to be some kind of color space thresholding
Ex. of unvetted output : https://shaderacademy.com/challenge/ranked_1