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i can code. i just don’t want to.
and somehow we’re still fixing design → code with more prompts, more mcp, and more handoff.
i think the canvas and the ide need to have a baby.
wrote about what that could look like 👇🏾
https://ka1eab.substack.com/p/the-canvas-and-the-ide-need-to-have?r=4mnfkj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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the canvas and the ide need to have a baby
there is a strange hole in the current wave of ai design tools.
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