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Prototype to Production

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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

Figma's Code Layers and the Vanishing Line Between Prototype and Product

Figma's code layers turn running code into a canvas material designers can reshape. The convenience is real — but so is the question of who owns code quality once it's one click from production.