New post on Frame/work. Matt Cooper breaks down why AI-authored apps keep winning preference tests, and why that’s not the same thing as winning a working week: Beauty Now, Cohesion Later
The pitch: an AI agent given total freedom will draft a better-looking app than a template-based one, every time. But once you put it next to the other apps in the suite, the seams show up first. This post makes the case for spec-driven agentic development—agents on top of a substrate that already carries the design system, the shortcuts, the accessibility baseline—and the tradeoffs that come with it.
Give it a read and let us know where you land.