Design system archaeology
Reading a system you didn't build, and why the first 90 days look nothing like building
Design systems27
Agents are the most honest reviewers your design system will ever have
The most useful feedback your system has ever produced is on a thirty-day timer
What your components look like as data
Why every layer name, variant, and token reference is an architectural decision
The prompt you never wrote
How your design system vocabulary becomes AI context
The design system just became middleware
The gap between what your system says and what it does used to be a minor annoyance. Now it's a structural fault.
Building for coherence, not compliance
Lessons from Baldurs Gate 3 on contracts, governance, and judgment at the edges