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#161 700 Components in One Day: How Design Work Is Quietly Moving Into Code
A client of mine just rebuilt their entire Figma design system — roughly 700 components — as code components in Claude Code. It took one day. And now their designers prototype in code, while Figma has become the tool they open "when they occasionally need to design something."
In this episode, I unpack what this story reveals about where our jobs are heading. The "should designers code?" debate is over — but we didn't end it. The job market did. And the way our roles are changing isn't arriving as a memo. It's arriving as convenience.
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Why prototyping in the real system…
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