Thinking Things Through
Hardik PandyaEverything I write about my experiences is born out of empirical learnings and everyday observations. These’s obviously bias in these notes but since there’s a great dearth of honest personal accounts of people in tech, I hope this serves as a useful one.
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LLMs don’t think in design systems
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Making your design system LLM-readable
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We tried this with Atlassian’s design system
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