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AI-generated UI code quickly becomes inconsistent and unmaintainable

Developers using AI coding agents like Cursor or Claude Code to build UIs find that generated components ignore existing design systems, mix inline styles, and produce hallucinated code that becomes inconsistent and production-unready after a few iterations. This structural limitation of context-unaware AI code generation is a major pain point as AI coding adoption accelerates.

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