HOW TO MAKE YOUR DESIGN SYSTEM AI-READY

Summary from the TLDR Dev newsletter

AI prototypes fail because of design system debt, such as undocumented decisions, hard-coded values, and AI guessing from mockups. The fix is treating decisions as infrastructure via three layers: structured Markdown spec files the AI reads on every generation, a token layer forcing it to pick from a closed set of named variables, and an audit script that flags hard-coded values plus a sync routine that catches stale specs.