Honestly, I never understood the move to create an artificial dichotomy between design and code with a heavy layer of tooling.

I suppose that a layout engine made sense in the context of Flash, and you saw the future of the web as a set of keyframe animations. But the notion that there's a lot of value in creating a very heavy, high-friction abstraction between the UI/UX and the platform it ultimately runs on was always going to be a loser.

In the end, it turns out we're all just web developers, regardless of your weapon of choice.

Figma is going to regret not having sold to Adobe.

Can someone please help me understand why people are obssessing over this as a Figma killer and not, more clearly, a shot at Replit, Lovable, etc.?

I got deeper into Figma than I ever had to before yesterday.

It turns out there’s no way to use Math in variables built in to the product. The most common plugin is 99 dollars. To add what is obviously mustache JS. To browser based software. It’s not good.

I hope the authors mom is not on the internet. Cursing in capslock. Good grief.

If you get to the post script it sounds like they are just pissed they didn't get hired by figma.

I feel like we're leaning way too much into the "vibe" aspect of using LLMs at the moment. There is definitely a good use case for LLM's here, but is just prompting your way into a design really the best method here? I feel like something in between Figma and Claude Design would give designers the control they want, but still removing the friction of going between design files and the code impl.

Oh no. Figma has variables and instances and it's hard to debug bad colors.

And here I am with Claude Code... That so far generated a 2000-line CSS file for a 7000-line app consisting of literally three web pages [1]. Where almost every single color, component, class and style is duplicated at least two times. Where custom classes are fighting with Tailwind classes (yes, there's also Tailwind ON TOP of custom CSS) that are fighting with inline hardcoded style= declarations.

Figma is definitely going to suffer the vibe-coded design slop-app from Anthropic.

[1] 7k lines are almost justified for the functionality in them, and I tried to keep an eye on the code. It's harder to keep an eye on CSS

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