@amyegan here’s good example pictures attached. I’ve been a paid customer of v0 since April and I remember how I could consistently send v0 Mockup images and v0 would make an exact replica in ShadCN/Tailwind code. Then in June-July I believe this ability to generate a UI that at all resembled the screenshot sent in diminished. Even when I used the expensive large model instead of medium, it failed to make anything similar. Despite the fact that just 2-3 days before, even medium model could reliably clone screenshots.
Takeaway TLDR: You & other vercel employees probably don’t try to clone UI design screenshots much in your daily dogfooding of the product. I think any user who often clones screenshots with v0 will attest the quality randomly decreased dramatically one morning around the time of June-July. And these screenshotted sites are often using ShadCN and Tailwind & v0 still fails to generate a design at all similar in style to the pictures.
My pictures are attached below. This is an expensive UI and it’s value to me was that it could previously design better than other AIs. if the model doesn’t get smoothed out soon I’m going to cancel my subscription.
The reference screenshot provided to v0
The 1st output (I did one more attempt after this)
The 2nd output
This is disappointing, the pictures look nothing like the reference picture and the steps 1-2-3-4 in the 2nd output are aligned to the right end of the page, when in my reference picture it’s super clear it’s in the middle of the page.
The prompts I’ve been feeding v0 are no less descriptive than before when v0 worked. In fact, I clicked v0’s button to clone a screenshot and it still looks this disappointing. I try explicitly mentioning Tailwind CSS because that’s what the reference site uses, no luck there either.
I’m getting better results when I use other AI companies that don’t advertise themselves as design AIs. This quality change was instant overnight and I expected it was probably just a tuning update Vercel would soon revert or train to be corrected. Yet we’re now more than 2 months later and the quality is just as poor as that day the model worsened.
