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Some things never change: hard lessons from the AI building front lines

Some things never change: hard lessons from the AI building front lines

What Figma AI and Windsurf Reveal About Building Better AI Systems

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Nov 26, 2024
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The more things change the more they … don’t

Like most of us, I start playing with AI tools by jumping in headfirst. This weekend I had an idea for a landing page and thought, "Why not test use this as a chance to play with Windsurf and Figma AI a bit more while building it?" The result was bad—so bad it's not worth showing. But it wasn’t bad because the…

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