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The Two Modes of Agentic UI: What I've Learnt Building With Claude Code

A year of getting AI coding agents to build user interfaces. The two modes that worked, the failure modes that recurred, and what the industry has shipped alongside.

28 April 202613 min read

Tristan Russell

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