The Codaiq Journal — design, AI, and shipping at velocity
Field notes from the team building the AI website engine. Architecture, design system decisions, and what we learned the hard way.
How we generated 50,000 websites without a single broken hero image
We built a deterministic placement engine on top of a probabilistic LLM. Here is the architecture that keeps every hero looking intentional — not generic — across half a million generated layouts.
Aria Chen
Engineering Lead
The case against templates — and why prompts win
A template is someone else's opinion frozen in time. A prompt is your opinion, expressed once, regenerated forever.
Priya Anand
Designing for AI generation: the 59-component rule
Why we capped our internal design system at exactly 59 components, and how that constraint produced better-looking output than systems three times the size.
Mateo Russo
Lighthouse scores 95+ from generated code: how we got there
Tree-shaking the LLM. The five performance budgets we attach to every generation pass, and what we throw away when they break.
Jonas Becker
Build vs. Buy: when SaaS founders should leave Webflow
A decision matrix for the moment your marketing site needs to behave more like a product. With timestamps from real customer migrations.
Priya Anand
WebAuthn passkeys in 2026 — what we learned
Six months of passkey-first authentication in production. The cross-device sync edge cases, the recovery flow that nobody warns you about, and the conversion data.
Aria Chen
Behind the planner prompt: 400 lines of design discipline
The system prompt that decides what gets built before a single line of code is written. Every clause earned its place after a thousand bad outputs.
Sofia Lindqvist
Launch: Codaiq v1.0 — what's shipping today
Multi-page generation, real-time chat editing, custom domains, lead capture, GDPR-ready forms, and the integrations hub. Plus what is intentionally not in v1.0 — and why.
Hasan Ali Badruk
GDPR-compliant cookie banners in 5 minutes
The minimum viable consent flow your site actually needs — what GDPR requires, what it does not require, and the dark patterns to keep out.
Daniel Okafor
We shipped 100 features in 90 days — here is what broke
An honest retrospective: the velocity was real, but so was the technical debt. The four systems we had to rewrite in week 13.
Aria Chen
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