Why we hardcoded 8 niche presets instead of letting GPT generate slide layouts

Most AI slide tools let GPT decide everything — the layout, the typography hierarchy, the section structure. Each generation is a new design lottery. We shipped the opposite approach: 8 hardcoded niche presets that GPT can fill but not redesign. This post is about why constraint won over creativity for our slide-generation pipeline. The problem with letting LLM design layouts Early prototype: pure GPT layout generation. The model decides: How many sections per slide Title vs subti...