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To: Traditional UI templates are incompatible with AI coding agents
“You can go to any of the templates that you find on VZero, Lovable you know, all of these other place Framer, Figma community for people who are more familiar with designs, and the problem with those is that they are highly close behind the techniques and the …”
To: AI builders must rapidly adopt new models to maintain moats
“As someone who works in AI, your mode is basically, you have to be new, you know, you have, like, I don't, I'm sure anyone can relate, But you always, when there's a new model that comes, you have to talk about it. Otherwise you're kind of losing a lot of that…”
Meng To: Large social followings sell products regardless of quality
“If you have like a huge channel on social media, regardless of how bad your product is, as long as you have the functionality, people will buy it.”
To: Attaching design.md files transfers design systems to AI agents
“So basically this is for designers, and if you want to take the soul of the design and you want to bring that
To the agent, and you want to bring a design system, the colors, the typography that makes the design beautiful.
Well, you port it, and you put it all…”
To: Foundational design systems prevent AI from being too literal
“Now, if you only provide a portion of it or something too specific, the AI tends to sort of like take that too literally. But if you provide something more, ah, like a foundational system, like a process, agents.md and what not, then you get something that giv…”
To: design.md creates portable design memory across AI tools
“I like to think of design.md like a design memory, and this is great because it can transfer between platform. So, if you're working in lovable, and you like what you've done, or in cloud design, and then you want to move it to Figma, or you want to move it to…”
To: Basic typography and colors are no longer enough for landing pages
“Like, nowadays, just having the typography Just having the colors is not enough unless it's a secondary page or unless it's something that is very serious, but if you're talking about a landing page or a promo video or, you know, a slide, you need a moat.”
To: Global agent prompt files consume more tokens and lack specificity
“If you only change the agent.md, oftentimes, you know, first of all, it costs a lot more tokens, but also it's too general, right? It doesn't apply to every single workflow out there.”
To: AI shifts design from moving pixels to high-frequency judgment
“So, what I believe is that everything is changing, and we're doing a lot less of the moving pixels, moving rectangle and resizing things. We're doing a lot more judgment per minute. In fact, you know, For me, the agent is more like someone who's doing a lot of…”
To: Only delegate workflows to AI if you have already mastered them
“Please use your, ah, you know, your taste every step of the way, and don't let AI do everything for you, and even if you do let AI do a lot of things for you, make sure that it's part of the workflow that you already mastered, right?”
Meng To: Taste is what makes humans unique from AI
“So I think there's such a problem right now with AI creating generic content and creating a generic designs. And I think what do you need to learn is how to do it with taste because ultimately it is that's what makes us a human and unique from AI.”
Meng To: AI requires explicit reference prompts for unique designs
“Because, you know, AI is very limited in the amount of context. It's very trained in a certain way by Claude, by OpenAI, but it's not trained to be unique. It's not, the only way it can be unique is if you tell it, and if you handhold it, and if you give it th…”