"The worst thing you can have in cinema is an unmotivated camera move. If you're panning across a scene, you better be following something moving through it, and that thing must have importance to the story. Otherwise, it's just 'Look at me, I'm a director' bullshit. A dolly-zoom that doesn't convey vertigo is just a director showing off a trick."
The exact same sickness has infected AI-generated software. LLMs constantly inject the digital equivalent of unmotivated camera moves: scroll parallax for the sake of parallax, ambient glowing purple orbs, glassmorphism blur filters, and gratuitous metadata eyebrows.
This guide outlines why models generate UI slop, catalogues the loudest smells, and provides practical rules for building restrained, human-grade interfaces.