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Founder and builder perspectives on AI tools, thinking patterns, and the new way of working
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From Figma to Faithful Code (Without the Riffing)
When a Figma file exists you want faithful translation, not the agent improvising. The Figma MCP bridges design to code that respects your system.
One Token System, Zero One-Off Hex Values
Agents invent a fresh hex per component. A token system generated from one brand color makes consistency automatic instead of accidental.
Auditing Animation: Three Lenses on Motion
A motion auditor blends three conflicting philosophies — restraint, polish, play — weighted to context to catch the tells of generic AI animation.
Motion That Doesn't Feel Cheap: The Emil Rules
The hard motion rules that separate senior animation from slop: durations, easing, exits faster than entrances, transform-only for 60fps, and reduced-motion respect.
Give Your Agent Eyes: The Visual Feedback Loop
The single highest-leverage move in AI design: let the agent screenshot the rendered page, compare to a reference, and iterate. Without eyes you trust a blind model.
Commit to One Extreme: Picking an Aesthetic Direction
Blended design is dead design. Why committing to one extreme — brutalist, editorial, luxury, maximalist — beats the safe middle, and the skills that force the commitment.
Banning Inter: Why Font Defaults Are the Slop Tell
Inter, Roboto, Arial, Space Grotesk — the fonts models default to and why they read as AI-generated. What committed type pairing looks like instead.
Don't Install 45 Skills. Stack These Four.
You don't need a pile of design skills to beat AI slop. You need four: a taste base, motion, tokens, and a visual feedback loop. Here's the recipe.
The Six-Layer Anti-Slop Stack
AI design slop lives on six layers, from frontend UI to trust and orchestration. Here's the full map and the skill that fixes each one.
What a Design Skill Actually Is (and Why It Beats a Prompt)
A design skill is a plain-markdown SKILL.md the agent loads on every turn. Here's why that beats a one-off prompt, plus the three ways to install one.
AI Design All Looks the Same. Here's the Tell.
Every vibe-coded site has the same signature: purple gradient, Inter, four cards, one weak hover. Here's why models ship it and how to overwrite it.
Prompt Engineering Is Out. Loops Are In.
Why loop engineering replaced prompt engineering in 2026, and what changes for builders when the unit of work becomes an autonomous loop instead of a prompt.