Why every Claude Code-built site looks the same — and the image layer that breaks it

TL;DR: AI-built sites look uncannily similar because they share the same defaults — Tailwind + shadcn/ui + Lucide + the same gradients. It's not a placeholder problem; it's a visual-stack problem. Real, project-specific images are the cheapest way out. I wrote a small Claude Code skill that wraps Codex CLI's gpt-image-2 and triggers on natural-language asks. Drop a DESIGN.md at the project root, tell Claude to insert images, and you get a coherent, on-brand set across the site. Biggest win fo...