I don’t care what anyone says about the cycle or that implying that it’s all in our heads. It’s bad bad.
I’m a Max x20 model who had to stop using it this week. Opus was regularly failing on the most basic things.
I regularly use the front end skill to pass mockups and Opus was always pixel perfect. This last week it seemed like the skill had no effect.
I don’t think they are purposely nerfing it but they are definitely using us as guinea pigs. Quantized model? The next Sonnet? The next Haiku? New tokenizing strategies?
This is doable. I set something similar up at scale. Figma Variables/Tokens -> Token Studio (Style Dictionary, essentially) -> Our Component library <-> Storybook -> MCP
Atomic component system, good page level template coverage, great prop support.
The LLM consumer nor the designer is allowed to write directly back to the library. Those changes need to go through a governance process to prevent drift as their are multiple product teams consuming it and we still don't have a reliable way to make sure Figma and the component library are always 1:1. Maybe in a company of a single designer.
So while this setup is arguably more fleshed out than what you have it still requires multiple humans in the loop.
Sure, there are a billion Medium articles about how it can be done with tokens but its much messier at any kind of scale.
Knowing what I know about the artist in this video this was probably more about the novelty of the technology and the creative freedom it offers rather than it is budget.
ASAP Rocky has a fervent fanbase who's been anticipating this album. So I'm assuming that whatever record label he's signed to gave him the budget.
And when I think back to another iconic hip hop (iconic that genre) video where they used practical effects and military helicopters chasing speedboats in the waters off of Santa Monica...I bet they had change to spear.
I’d much rather have the terminal version working again though.