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A scaffold is not a pipeline

AI can build a convincing shell long before the hard handoff works.

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  • Prototype honesty

Landing Page Testing had five visible rounds tied to paid-search hypotheses. The work could be compared, critiqued, and brought back to the real design system. The Component-Library experiment looked more complete than it was: Storybook and a CLI existed, but the Figma import still ended in a placeholder alert. The separate Figma React generator folder contained nothing at all. Seeing those projects together changed what I checked first. I stopped rewarding the amount of interface around an idea and looked for the working handoff at its center.