The End of “AI Slop”: How to Create Unique UIs with AI Agents

In the rapidly evolving world of AI-driven development, a significant issue has emerged that plagues the creative landscape: the User Interface (UI) problem. We are witnessing a homogenization of design, where new applications and websites increasingly look alike. This phenomenon, often dubbed “AI slop,” is a direct result of AI models defaulting to the statistical average of their vast training data. This article explores this challenge and demonstrates a powerful workflow using the AI agent Kombai to break free from mediocrity and build truly unique, high-quality frontends.

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[Examples of generic AI-generated user interfaces]

The AI coding space is currently grappling with a pervasive problem. If you’ve spent any time on platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn, or Product Hunt, you’ve likely seen the complaints. We are entering an era where every new SaaS app and landing page seems to be cut from the same cloth. They all feature the same blocky layouts, the same generic Inter font, predictable spacing, and an overwhelming affinity for what can only be described as the “ugly purple gradient era.”

It’s getting to the point where you can visit a website and tell instantly, within milliseconds, if it was built by an AI agent because they all default to the statistical average of design. They regress to the mean.

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[Kombai’s homepage showcasing it as the AI agent for frontend development.]

Today, we’ll show you how to break out of this loop using Kombai, an AI agent specifically built for frontend development. While previous tools focused solely on code generation, Kombai’s latest updates shift the paradigm. It’s no longer just about generating code; it’s about having the ability to steer the AI towards creating unique, beautiful UIs. This approach transforms the developer from a passive recipient of mediocre output into a creative director who demands and achieves excellence.

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[The Kombai extension interface within the VS Code editor.]

To demonstrate this, we’ll start with a blank project in VS Code. The goal is to build a landing page for a high-end, brutalist style architecture firm. This design aesthetic, known for its raw, blocky forms, strange negative space, and bold typography, is something that generic AI agents typically struggle with as it deviates from the standard Bootstrap or Tailwind grids they’ve seen countless times in their training data.

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[A user prompt being entered into the Kombai chat interface to create a Brutalist architecture landing page.]

Instead of a simple “make a landing page” prompt, we’ll provide a detailed and specific request using Kombai’s Plan mode. This initial step is about setting a clear creative direction.

Create a landing page for Brutalist Architecture Company with a massive, screen-filling typography hero section, an offset image grid for projects that breaks the grid, and a stark black-and-white theme. No gradients.

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[Kombai’s generated Design Plan, including a visual concept wireframe and technical notes.]

This is where Kombai’s process fundamentally differs from other tools. Instead of immediately writing code, it enters Plan Mode and generates a comprehensive design plan. This includes a low-fidelity wireframe of the visual concept, design tokens for colors and typography, a list of required assets, and the proposed file structure. This crucial step allows you to review and confirm that the agent has understood your vision before a single line of code is written.

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[The updated Design Plan in Kombai after receiving user feedback to modify the layout.]

The plan is not static; it’s interactive. For instance, if the initial wireframe looks a bit too standard, you can provide direct feedback. By simply instructing, “No, make the hero text larger and overlap the first image,” Kombai instantly updates the plan to reflect the change. Once this low-fi sketch aligns perfectly with the desired vision, you can approve it, and the agent will proceed to turn the blueprint into functional, high-quality React code.

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[The live preview of the generated brutalist architecture website in a browser.]

With the structure in place, the next step is to refine the user experience and make it truly unique. To move beyond standard UI libraries, we can leverage Kombai’s Resource Library. This feature provides access to modern, high-quality UI libraries and design inspirations, including components built with Framer Motion, GSAP, and Acertinity.

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[Kombai’s Resource Library modal showing various categories for design assets and inspirations.]

For our brutalist site, a premium parallax scroll effect would add a layer of sophistication. After finding a suitable example in the Framer Motion library, we don’t need to manually read documentation or install dependencies. We can simply provide the URL to Kombai.

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[A prompt instructing Kombai to implement a specific Parallax Scroll component from an external URL.]

By giving Kombai the link to the parallax component and instructing it to replace the standard project grid, the agent takes over the complex task of integration.

Implement https://motion.dev/examples/react-parallax?search=parall... Use this Parallax Scroll component from the library for the project section. Replace the standard grid with this.

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[Kombai’s chat interface detailing the steps it took to implement the Motion library and parallax effect.]

Kombai intelligently analyzes your existing codebase, installs the necessary dependencies (like npm install motion), and adapts the new component to fit your project’s specific theme and configuration. It seamlessly integrates the parallax effect into our stark black-and-white design, transforming a static grid into a dynamic, layered experience that feels engineered, not just generated.

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[Using Kombai’s browser integration to select and reference a navigation menu from another website.]

This workflow highlights the key to overcoming AI slop: steering. Instead of asking the AI to “be creative” from a vacuum, which often leads to generic results, you provide specific, high-quality references. Using Kombai’s browser integration, you can even point to an interaction on an award-winning website, highlight the element you like, and instruct the AI to adapt its mechanics for your project.

Make me a menu and design the navigation just like this site.

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[The final polished website with custom navigation and parallax scrolling animations.]

This process matters because foundational models are increasingly trained on synthetic, average web content, causing them to converge on bland designs. The workflow enabled by Kombai—combining Plan Mode, the Resource Library, and browser integration—puts the developer firmly back in the driver’s seat. You become the architect and creative director, and Kombai acts as the highly skilled builder capable of executing your unique vision.

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[A collage of generic UI designs representing the “UI Problem of Every AI model.”]

By leveraging these powerful steering capabilities, we can move past the era of generic AI wrappers and begin building applications that are not only functional but also human-crafted, unique, and truly valuable. With tools like Kombai, the future of frontend development is not about replacing developers, but empowering them to create exceptional user experiences that stand out from the crowd.