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id: "quote-designing-in-code"
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tags: ["abstractions", "efficiency"]
related: ["concept-the-translation-layer"]
speaker: "Nate B. Jones"
speakers: ["Nate B. Jones"]
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sourceVaultSlug: "s05-claude-design-30min"
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# "You Should Just Be Designing in Code."

> Fundamentally it's inefficient. Fundamentally you're building abstractions on top of code, when you should just be designing in code.
> — [[entity-nate-b-jones]]

## Why It Matters
The philosophical thesis underlying [[concept-the-translation-layer]]. Mockups are *abstractions on top of* the medium they describe — and AI fluent in HTML/CSS/React makes that abstraction unnecessary. Designing in code is now possible because code is now a viable design surface.