𝐀 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐜-𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐅𝐢𝐠𝐦𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 - 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚 “𝐧𝐨-𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞,” 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. 𝐌𝐲 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚.
Hi Everyone! Two years ago, working on a quant research prototype, I read the challenge of two separate worlds and visions - designers with their creation and developers focused on their logic - both ever conflicting on requirements . The gap between intention and reality in our quest to build a prototype was enormous, cost months of iteration cycles and often just tedious work. That realization lead me to co-found CanvasEight.io and we've spent the last 18 months obsessing over this problem. Initially we thought the challenge was just visual design fidelity in conversion to code. We faced very challenging AI variability with just a 20%-40% fidelity accuracy in the first 6 months and reaching just only recently >70% Figma to code conversions. We had done an extensive amount of work building a reliable AI structure, Machine Learning models which we've discarded or re-adapted over time and even an hybrid LLM environment scoped specifically for design to code gen...