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Notes from building Mateo - on design systems, AI coding tools, and why honest specifications beat confident guesses.
Introducing Mateo
July 17, 2026 · 2 minPaste a URL, get a design.md - a specification AI coding tools can actually build from. Here's what we made and why.
Why AI-generated UI always looks the same
July 17, 2026 · 2 minThe sameness isn't a model limitation - it's a context problem, and it's fixable.
How Mateo reads a website
July 17, 2026 · 2 minInside the extraction pipeline: real browsers, computed styles, hover diffs, and why we mark our estimates.