Claude Design and the shift from Figma back to code

A designer argues that Figma's complexity has made it irrelevant in the age of AI agents. Because Figma's proprietary format wasn't in LLM training data, models learned code instead. As agents make coding easier for designers, the source of truth is migrating back to code. The post walks through Figma's own design system files to show how baroque the tooling has become: 946 colour variables, nested modes, aliased references, and components with names like "Default, Focused, Close Button=True". The author suggests design tooling will fork into two paths as the industry reckons with this shift.