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Annoying, but also pretty sure it's on purpose for optical alignment because our brains expect the side of "B" to be slightly tapered

yeah - it's like the O being larger on purpose, right? thing I don't get here is that the B alignment is so minuscule that it could almost be believably unintentional 😅

Yeah, same principle. It very well could be unintentional, but at the same time anything larger would stick out too much + they've had however many decades to refine their logo. Just my 2¢ tho :)

for real – find this level of design super fascinating it makes me question things every time I'm putting together an icon or something

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oh 100% same. I wish I had good design chops, since most of the stuff I end up "designing" looks like this lmao

Personally I'm not a big fan of AI tools for design or coding (and I say this as someone who's tried a *lot* of AI tools for coding, but not many for design). I think this post describes how I feel... (1/4) bsky.app/profile/did:...

As far as coding goes, the current crop of LLMs remind me of very savvy junior devs — the type of people who are very smart and capable of following established patterns but lack the experience and perspective to make the right architectural and engineering decisions about a greenfield project.

(2/4)... And as someone who's building a polished app for users that we want to keep around for a long time, I feel like starting from a rocky base (especially for something that I may not be as skilled at!) it setting our team up for future failures rather than getting a human to design things...