From an aesthetic point of view, I am getting pretty tired of this obviously LLM generated static site content template design in 2025/2026.

98% of the time when I see one of these it's a bunch of "content" generated by Claude or similar.

Quoting the site: "Written by Rashid N. Rashid N is the editor of HonestlyRanked. He reviews every figure this site publishes against its source before it goes out, and has never accepted a free account, a review unit, or payment for placement. Rashid N is a pen name; see our methodology page. "

I would bet good money that "Rashid N. Rashid N" is busy being a meat-puppet for an LLM to produce plausible sounding content. To exactly what end, I'm not sure.

Also the dark theme is something not everybody likes. Especially with red-green inside. Think of color-blind people. My eyes are in pain from just trying to focus.

I can understand that its tiresome, but its also not new.

Every medium, livejournal, blogger, etc page in the look nearly exactly the same. Or Twitter Bootstrap sites.

I'll give them some credit here: its at least been worked into a terse format unlike a lot of the docs I get from people who seem to think AI's ability to add verbosity is somehow a virtue.

Looks like every other website to me, even before Claude was a thing. IMHO new sites have looked like this for a long time.

I think it's less of a distinct aesthetic rather than having "Tells" in the template that you might be sensitive to for having worked with it.

I've seen word documents that the first time I saw them I thought nothing of it. Wasn't until I had ChatGPT work on something later and noticed it's exact use of particular fonts and colors that I realized the other was AI generated.

There was nothing materially wrong with the documents, but after seeing the connection you can't unsee it. It's not really a new or AI specific phenomenon either, any template can trigger it. like how every RPG maker game looks the same, or every substack blogs all are samey, even on custom domains.

Typography of these LLM-generated sites is bad.

Design is a question of taste, I am not commenting it.

But yes, you are right that we get tired of these sites as they are indistinguishable.

Have anyone tried to print or switch page to browser’s reader mode? Here starts hell :)

Why can't anyone just run it through one of the "make this not appear so clearly LLM-generated" obfuscation utilities open sourced on GitHub, or something similar just with prompts.

The level of phoning in the complete lack of any work beyond the absolute bare minimum is the most frustrating aspect to me.

From a content point of view, this could've been a tweet (or a toot).

Yeah it was interesting to me that I identified it immediately. Perhaps been spending too much time w/ Claude It's capable of many different designs but this site tells me Rashid didn't even bother.

The stock /frontend-design skill really loves an all-caps mono caption

"honestlyranked.com"

Even the URL captures the ubiquitous "honestly / genuinely / let me be up front" verbal tick that Claude can't resist. That is, "Rashid" likely couldn't even be bothered to come up with his own website name. I hate it.

These LLM generated comments about LLM content are getting a little tiresome.