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speculation in this space is completely fair but this sentiment:
As code becomes easier for designers to write and agents keep improving, the source of truth will naturally migrate back to code. And all the baroque infrastructure Figma had to introduce over the past decade will look nuts by comparison. Why fuss around in a lossy approximation of the thing when you can work directly in the medium where it will actually live? If we want to make pottery, why are we painting watercolors of the pot instead of just throwing the clay?
drives me nuts. the process of design working in companies, on teams, involves working from rough ideas (of which there may be many) to a finalized idea that benefits from rounds of iteration and abstraction. Being able to jump directly to a series of final-looking things doesn’t “design it” faster, it obfuscates the problem behind slick looking interfaces. You’re not going to pull a slot machine and suddenly end up with a design that meets all of the needed criteria.
A friend of mine is at a company that is trying to use AI ‘custom tools’ to give everyone at the company the ability to generate text and graphics. All it does is give them more work where wireframes work just as well, and doesn’t save the writers and designers time because the generated work isn’t up to snuff. And it confuses the process because it’s harder for everyone else to know what the finished, approved work is.