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The AI gold rush analogy gets thrown around as a compliment. It shouldn't. Especially now with the Fable 5 debacle.
Most miners went broke. The ones who made money sold pickaxes. And apparently now someone can jump in the mine and take your pickaxes away because of how dangerous they think they are.
That last part is Fable 5. Launched June 9th. Pulled by a US export control directive June 12th. Anything built on it stopped working overnight.
What Fable 5 added is that apparently someone can also jump in the mine and take your pickaxes away because of how dangerous they think they are. After you spent years in the town square warning everyone about how dangerous your pickaxes are. Idk, maybe the metaphor breaks down a tad there.
The gold is (probably) real. The rush is definitely real. So are the holes and the dirt we've gotta wade through.
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Same copy. Same brand. Completely different stores.
Élan Atelier — two hero directions for the same SS26 evening wear collection.
Structured leans editorial-commercial. Split layout, cream background, floating product tags, social proof stats below the fold. You can feel the price before you read it.
Immersive goes full bleed. Typography bleeds across the model, dark overlay, cinematic. Feels like a campaign shoot, not a store.
Both are luxury. But one sells, one inspires.
Which direction would you trust with your credit card?
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I built a design system generator inside Figma Make. Here's the workflow.
The problem I kept running into: every new client project meant re-explaining the brand to every AI tool from scratch. Figma Make didn't know the colors. Cursor didn't know the tokens. Claude didn't know the rules. I was the shared memory — and I kept losing things.
So I built Design System Gen. Entirely inside Figma Make. Powered by Claude API.
The workflow:
Upload brand references → Claude API analyzes them across 8 dimensions (palette, mood, typography, composition, lighting, texture, motion, UI DNA) → structured data, not vibes → generates 11 files, each formatted for a specific tool in your stack.
figma-make.md → paste once, Figma Make knows your entire design system
design-system.css → all tokens as CSS custom properties
tokens.json → W3C format, imports directly into Figma Variables
starter.tsx → React starter with tokens already bound
.cursorrules → Cursor knows your system from root
Claude.md → Claude reads it automatically every session
+ 5 more for docs, LLMs, prompts, components
Every tool gets its own context file. All consistent with each other.
The part I'm most proud of: I'm a designer. I don't write code. The entire tool — UI, API integration, file generation logic — was built and shipped inside Figma Make. No external hosting. No separate codebase.
Live at: vibecodingdsgen.figma.site
Add your Claude API key and try it with your own moodboard.
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As someone who constantly jumps between Figma, Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Lovable, and other AI tools, this problem feels very familiar 😅
The tools are getting smarter, but keeping context consistent is still surprisingly manual. Love seeing people tackle that gap.
Still can't believe this is fully native.
With the Framer 3.0 update I rebuilt this viral landing page using Opus 4.8. The result is insane.
Edit every layer on the canvas or just ask Claude
Check it live https://lumio.framer.media/
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