AI Coding Agents Cannot Make Precise UI Edits to Apps Without Design Files
Most real-world AI agent UI work happens on existing running applications that never had a Figma design file, yet current agent tooling is anchored to design sources. When developers ask agents to modify UI components in production apps, the agent lacks the structured context to make precise, consistent changes. The gap between agent capability for logic tasks versus UI precision tasks is widest in brownfield scenarios with no design anchor.
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