Stephen Haney

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · How To Design In The Agent Era · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

But if you had an entire site that you wanted to go through, for instance, using the agent is really useful.

Or if you wanted to pull this back into your code base when you're done, the agent can do that for you.

Yeah, I think very simple changes.

All we did was pull back the weight of the font, and we consolidated how many sizes there are.

To me, it looks much more designed and more intentional.

And so if we go pull the original again, like here's kind of the, we'll pull up paper and do a side by side.

Now, and this is subjective, right?

And I know somebody probably spent some time on this design and I think they nailed the content, but by pulling some of these AI tells out of it, to me, the one on the right feels more trustworthy.

It feels more intentional and more designed.

One, I don't think you should do that.

And it's so tempting, especially I'm sure if you're like a YC founder and you have zero time and you're trying to sell your first, you know, make your first sales.

It's probably very tempting to use whatever cloud design spits out.

I don't think you should do it because I don't think it helps you stand out from the crowd.

I think it makes you look like one of a million other projects and it makes you look less intentional and less like you care.

And so I think design is this great differentiator.

And if you look at every great company of the last 10, 20 years, basically all of them have exceptional design.

And I can't think of an example that doesn't.

And so I think if you want to be one of those really great companies, you have to put the care in on design and make sure that you stand out.

So AI tells, we talked about the font weight, the font sizes.

Those are huge ones to me.

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