TJ Pitre(@tpitre):Most AI design system demos cheat a little. They start with an existing codebase doing half the work. So I tried it from a completely empty folder. Just a directory and a Figma file. Here's how it went (including where Opus got a little ahead of itself):

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TJ Pitre@tpitre

2026.05.21 10:40

Most AI design system demos cheat a little. They start with an existing codebase doing half the work. So I tried it from a completely empty folder. Just a directory and a Figma file. Here's how it went (including where Opus got a little ahead of itself):