Vibe-coded websites built for 73 distinct businesses converge into roughly a dozen recurring visual designs despite an explicit originality incentive¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2029: tool and model accuracy changes quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Unsupervised clustering of DINOv3 embeddings recovers six visual archetypes absorbing 64 of 73 sites (88%), and effective-diversity indices put the number of distinct designs at roughly six to twelve. → Léonard Boussioux* 2026 q2 i? Median nearest-neighbor visual similarity (49 index points) is far higher than mean pairwise similarity (22.8), showing local concentration among look-alike sites. → Léonard Boussioux* 2026 (2)

Evidence¶

Léonard Boussioux* 2026¶

Léonard Boussioux, Ziyi Zhao, and Kanghyun Cho*. (2026). One Tool, One Taste? How Vibe Coding Trades Collective Diversity for Individual Creativity. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38183 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2609.38183

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Artifact-layer analysis of 73 full-page homepage screenshots embedded with DINOv3, clustered via UMAP–HDBSCAN. The article reports "six visual archetypes, which absorb 64 of 73 sites (88%)"; across 60 sensitivity configurations the cluster count ranges from 3 to 12, so the partition is used descriptively.

"Density clustering of the embedding space recovers six visual archetypes, which absorb 64 of 73 sites (88%; Figure 5)."

Léonard Boussioux* 2026 (2)¶

Léonard Boussioux, Ziyi Zhao, and Kanghyun Cho*. (2026). One Tool, One Taste? How Vibe Coding Trades Collective Diversity for Individual Creativity. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38183

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Pairwise cosine-similarity analysis of all 2,628 pairs among the 73 embedded homepages. The article reports the median nearest-neighbor score of "49 index points, compared with 22.8 for the average pair", and 14 of 73 sites (19%) have a nearest-neighbor score above 70.

"Each site’s closest neighbor among the other 72 has a median score of 49 index points, compared with 22.8 for the average pair (Figure 4)."

Discussion¶

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