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Design Theater: The Gap Between an AI's Rationale and the Screen

A July 2026 benchmark found over a quarter of AI design tools' stated rationales don't match the interfaces they built, and the gap is worst on behavior, not looks.

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// Prototyping

Vercel and Figma Are Quietly Racing Prototypes to Production

Vercel's rebuilt v0 and Figma Make's new beta both now open pull requests against real codebases, admitting the disposable AI prototype was a liability, not a feature.

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Product design, development, and design engineering in the age of AI — from first prototype to creative tooling.

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