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  travisd
  At $DAYJOBSTARTUP, we do hackathons twice a year. At the most recent one, an engineer sat down with a designer and set him up with Cursor. The designer looked like a kind in a candy shop, he was so excited to be able to rapidly prototype with natural language and not be clicking in Figma for hours.A month later, he comes back to the engineering team with a 10k line "index.html" file asking "How do I hand this off?" (he was definitely smart enough to know that just passing that file to us was not gonna fly). We decided to copy the designs into Figma for the handoff, both because that was the existing way we did design/engineering handoffs and also because creating high fidelity designs (e.g., "this color from our design system" and "this standard spacing value") isn't in Cursor's wheelhouse.We're probably going to spend more time working on a better setup for him. At the very least he should be working against our codebase and components and colors and design tokens. But I'm very curious to see where it goes from here.
• lamnguyenx
  What's your opinion on PenPot - Figma's biggest rival? I think PenPot is more dev-friendly. Their "Code" mode is 100% free
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  pglevy
  I'm curious to understand more about your use case. I've been working on getting fellow designers out of Figma since it's easier to express intent in code now using LLMs.
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  falloutx
  I like how MCP is not shoved into our face anymore after people realised more mcp servers eat into context and agents can easily use CLI tools.
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  eddywebs
  I can attest that ai agent executing cli binaries is better than use of an mcp, just because of the limitations of mcp, also figma mcp requires a pro license. Does the figma cli require a pro license as well ?
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  dhumph
  This is interesting, and I keep waiting for figma to release prompt to design without going thru Make. It must be touch to crack-or it will hurt their business model. The plug-ins in the space don’t respect components in the toolkit. Curious how far you can push this “Make a login form using my component library “ “Create no new design layouts of the selected frame” Can’t wait to try this out!
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  VladVladikoff
  Can it make a SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle?
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  Asciilotle
  Nice use case! I built something along similar lines.. an ASCII wireframe generator to jump straight from idea to code with zero friction: https://bareminimum.design/. Also handy for quick UI critiques. Curious what you think.
• geooff_
  This is huge. As someone who's put together a somewhat cohesive product but wants to take the next step in "formalizing" components there is a huge missing piece for design.If I know my backend works I can use claude to add sufficient tests and iterate from there, improving code maturity. If my UX looks good how can I formalize it and do the same?I can't wait to try this out. My current workflow has been use MCP to screenshot the whole app --> Use a tool like Codia to go from screenshot to components, as a non-designer its miserable though.
• GenerWork
  As a product designer, this looks really interesting! I'm curious if you've experimented throwing caution to the wind and asking it to make an entire design system (colors, text, components), and if so, how well it's worked.
• ar_turnbull
  Thanks. Definitely planning on checking this out!If I’m understanding correctly, you’d likely combine this with Figma MCP for reading? Ie. have Claude Code read the file to understand a request, then use this tooling to make modifications?
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  james_marks
  Nice work!How does it do applying styles from an existing codebase?We have style guides, strong base css, etc. If that was represented when it built in Figma, that could be interesting.
• kordlessagain
  > MCP servers exchange verbose JSON. CLIs are token-efficientExtra chars from JSON are the least of our problems with MCP.
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  preommr
  Any thoughts on why Citty, or if there's any other cli tools you might recommend?
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