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AI-generated code silently diverges from design systems at scale

Development teams using AI agents to generate UI components find that repeated prompting causes agents to drift from established design systems—inventing ad-hoc color values, ignoring component libraries, and leaving inline styles that are faster to discard than fix. The lack of design-system awareness in AI code generation creates a growing maintenance burden that undermines the speed gains from AI-assisted development.

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