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Alice Alexandra

@alicealexandra.com
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she/her • developer exerience, builder.io • writes, paints, composes, codes at alicealexandra.com • am generally, myself, a leaky abstraction

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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 08/05/2026
When I was a kid, I hacked my PlayStation to play pirated games. Weirdly, I think that story has a lot to say about our current moment in AI. feelingmachines.alicealexandra.com/access-meet...
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Access Meets Appetite
A tool built for exploration becomes a mechanical dragon when it meets a world that only knows how to hoard.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 20/03/2026
Something different today. A bit slower. A bit more personal. www.alicealexandra.com/blog/the-un...
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Blog - The Unspeakable Middle
An essay about AI's false binaries, the silent middle between hype and refusal, and what it means to keep thinking out loud inside contradiction.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 19/03/2026
ICYMI, Vite 8 has arrived! And with it, a more unified toolchain (Vite+) and a Vercel-like deployment platform (Void). They really cooked on this one. www.builder.io/blog/vite-8...
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Everything You Need to Know about Vite 8, Vite+, and Void
Learn what Vite 8, Vite+, and Void actually change: Rust-based builds, faster workflows, monorepo tooling, deployment trade-offs, and upgrade advice today.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 18/03/2026
"Stop putting chat in things. Just let my OpenClaw access every web app." Agreed. And for that to work, we need better web standards. www.builder.io/blog/webmcp
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Everyone's Missing the Point of WebMCP
AI assistants are getting better at helping people inside the browser, but they still need too much babysitting.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 08/03/2026
In light of the recent mess around AI use in the US government, I figured it was time to wonder how Claude might feel about it all. 🙃 www.alicealexandra.com/blog/clinic...
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Blog - Clinical Notes from Claude's Moral Injury Leave
A satirical clinical write-up following Claude through moral injury, model welfare, and a very polished accommodation to atrocity.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 05/03/2026
Perplexity Computer is so close to being amazing. I've been using it heavily this week. Here's my unfiltered thoughts about where I find it most useful and where it still falls short. builder.io/blog/perple...
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Perplexity Computer Review: What It Gets Right (and Wrong)
We tested Perplexity Computer. Discover why its cloud-based, multi-model AI agent excels at generalist workflows but falls short for web development.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 27/02/2026
being a devrel in the AI era means writing a blog post that becomes outdated before you can publish it. cannot tell you how often this happens.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 19/02/2026
Running multiple AI agents gets ridiculous fast. - You have 100 windows open - Your computer fans are crying - Agents keep bonking into each other in the code - You can't ever shut the laptop, which makes it tough to just... have a life Here's how to manage the chaos: builder.io/blog/ai-age...
A graph shows a decline in developer sanity as the number of AI agents increases, with a call to "stop the decline" alongside.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 03/02/2026
Subagents are super powerful when you grow out of skills. They're also really tough to debug. Here's all my tips and tricks for wrangling and optimizing them. www.builder.io/blog/subagents
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Subagents: When and How to Use Them
Subagents let you delegate to specialists with clean contexts. Learn when to use them in agentic IDEs, how patterns differ, and what guardrails prevent chaos
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 27/01/2026
If you're running out of steam on your Lovable prototype, here's all my favorite alternatives. www.builder.io/blog/lovabl...
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Lovable Alternatives for 2026
A practical guide to Lovable alternatives, with a comparison table and decision framework, for prototypes that need to grow up fast.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 25/01/2026
My entire timeline is full of people using Clawdbot, and they all kinda sound like this to me. www.alicealexandra.com/blog/the-200...
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I replaced my team with 200 Mac minis running Clawdbot
A satirical article about buying 200 Mac minis to run Clawdbots in parallel, drowning in infinite meta-work, and accidentally launching a memecoin.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 21/01/2026
I've experimented a ton with skills, commands, rules, and subagents. Here's my best advice on when to use each pattern and how to optimize. www.builder.io/blog/agent-...
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Agent Skills vs. Rules vs. Commands
Agent skills, rules, and commands offer different, strategic context for AI agents. Here’s when to use each and how to optimize them for production.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 13/01/2026
We keep saying the tech industry is losing its junior devs to AI, but there's a more nuanced take: Vibe coders are the next generation of juniors. In my technical writing these days, I'm thinking a lot about how I can teach and meet these newcomers where they are.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 29/12/2025
In OpenCode, I've even made it a command: /survey: "How was working in the codebase today? Did anything trip you up with how things are organized? Are there refactors needed? Did your tooling let you do everything you needed today?"
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 29/12/2025
A helpful tip for AI coding: after a long task is complete, ask the agent how working in the codebase went. Then, turn any recurring feedback into issues for later agents to look into. This helps keep your codebase cleaner. Agents know what context they need that they're not getting.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 19/12/2025
Cursor's visual editor is cool for solo devs, but on a team, devs add zero value by moving a button 10px left. Designers should own those changes. Here's how the new design mode works, and what still needs to change before Cursor can be a Figma killer. www.builder.io/blog/cursor...
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Cursor’s Design Mode (Visual Editing) Explained
Is Cursor’s design mode a Figma killer? Here’s how it works, where it falls short for non-developers and on source mapping, and how to let designers edit code.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 10/09/2025
Personally, I think authors should be able to opt out of training on their works entirely. If their work is used, they should get options for ongoing compensation based on actual AI usage. (Though we don't have accurate ways to measure usage yet.)
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 10/09/2025
Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5B to settle claims it trained AI on millions of pirated books. But the judge hasn’t approved it yet, questioning if $3,000 per book is the right precedent. What do you think? Does this move us forward on fair compensation or just leave questions?
AI-generated scene of a futuristic server room with glowing blue humanoid figures made of data holding open books, while more books float above a floor of streaming code; two books are stamped “PIRATED EDITION,” and the word “Anthropic” glows on the back wall.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 04/09/2025
It would be nice if you could prototype with AI right on your live site... ...without hand-replicating the repo, knowing how to code, or migrating your entire stack. And then send that PR right to your devs to approve. Luckily, you can. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q3...
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Production-grade AI Prototyping
Try Fusion: https://www.builder.io/fusion?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=protoyping&utm_content=amSkip the mockups. Use AI prototyping to launch real, produ...
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 13/08/2025
loving the DX of the new SvelteKit async updates. the best frameworks don't hype. they cut away ceremony, so things like async just... feel like you think it should be. fewer footguns, more flow. LLMs just "get it" reading the docs, too.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 12/08/2025
Cars have EPA window stickers and EU CO2 caps. AI has... "trust us, bro, it's fine." We need enforceable ‘AI Energy & Emissions’ labels on every major model.
A doctored screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation. A user asks, "How much water do you use per query?" ChatGPT responds that it uses a very small amount, "roughly 0.32 milliliters." However, a line of red text has been edited in below this, humorously contradicting the official answer by stating, "This response used 100mL of water."
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 11/08/2025
If you're shipping AI without evals, you're running prod on vibes. At Builder, we wire evals into CI, A/B tests, and prod to catch regressions and prove AI feature upgrades actually help our users. Here's how to set up your own. www.builder.io/blog/ai-evals
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You need evals to ship AI features
AI features are unpredictable and traditional tests fall short. Evals, automated checks for AI behavior, help you prevent regressions and measure success.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 05/08/2025
Some tips for code reviews without the tears: www.builder.io/blog/code-r...
A two-panel meme using stills of the main character from the TV show Squid Game. The top panel shows the character smiling gleefully with the caption, "watching ai generate code." The bottom panel shows the same character with a serious, stressed expression, captioned, "reviewing ai generated code."
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 29/07/2025
TDD feels bad. If I know how to write the function, why start with the spec? But AI agents switch it up. They need guardrails, and tests let them iterate on even the most complex problems. I'm convinced AI TDD is the way. Here's what changed my mind: www.builder.io/blog/test-d...
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Test-driven development with AI
Learn how AI transforms test-driven development (TDD) from a time-consuming chore into your secret weapon for building robust and bug-free applications.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 26/07/2025
So, does macOS 26 solve the bug where the Passwords app always opens behind your currently open app? I think that's all I care about for advancements.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 21/07/2025
looking at the sink: "ugh, time to do plate laundry again"
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 21/07/2025
Reviewing 1000-line AI-generated diffs sucks. Even AI can't really do it right. Here's how to stop being an AI babysitter and start being a code architect. www.builder.io/blog/code-r...
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Code review in the AI age
AI hasn't replaced developers; it's promoted them to architects. Learn how to review AI-generated code and use tools that create review-friendly diffs.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 17/07/2025
Copy/paste from any website into your own design system with Fusion: www.builder.io/blog/mock-u...
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Mock up a website in five prompts
Learn how to create a website mockup in minutes using AI-assisted tools. This guide walks through building a bakery site from concept to working prototype.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 17/07/2025
you gotta scrape OpenAI back sometimes
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 14/07/2025
You can try it out at builder.io/fusion.
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Builder.io: Visual Development Platform
Builder is the only Visual Development Platform that offers an AI-powered design-to-code tool, a visual editor and an enterprise CMS.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 14/07/2025
Keeping Figma in sync with Storybook (and your entire design system) just got way easier.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 10/07/2025
Weird anti-AI scraping technique: digital tar pits. Websites hide links that lead bots to an endless maze of auto-generated gibberish that all link back to itself, poisoning training data. Wouldn't recommend, but still an interesting tactic against overly eager scrapers.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 08/07/2025
Figma's *official* Dev Mode MCP server is now in open beta, and it's a pretty awesome tool! I've updated this article with how best to use it, how its AI works under the hood, and where some alternate workflows can augment your design to code process. www.builder.io/blog/figma-...
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Design to Code with the Figma MCP Server
Turn Figma designs into code using MCP servers. Skip screenshot guesswork and let AI access structured design data directly through Figma's API.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 07/07/2025
sometimes when i listen to Hozier, i'm just like, "Andrew, stop it, we're in _public_"
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 03/07/2025
Hot take: Design handoffs won't work until designers can ship code. Current MCP clients force you into dev tools or basic chat. PMs spec in docs, designers mock in Figma, and devs rebuild everything. What if one MCP client let the whole team code? 👇 builder.io/blog/mcp-cl...
A diagram illustrating the MCP architecture, with the title "Pick the right one" pointing to the client. The 'MCP client' is shown connecting to various AI models (like ChatGPT), while it communicates with an 'MCP server' that connects to different backend services (like Figma, Notion, and GitHub).
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 27/06/2025
If you're interested, you can try it on your own repo, right from the builder.io homepage.
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Builder.io: Visual Development Platform
Builder is an AI-Powered Visual Development Platform that helps teams generate, iterate, and optimize web and mobile experiences in seconds instead of sprints.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 27/06/2025
Debugging dark mode issues in an old, messy SvelteKit codebase is usually nightmare fuel. This morning, I connected my repo and put Builder Fusion on the case. It agentically iterated with the code and full DOM context, and it figured out the problem with a single prompt.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 27/06/2025
new favorite word just dropped
Dictionary entry for "bafflegab," a noun that means "incomprehensible or pretentious language, especially bureaucratic jargon."
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 10/06/2025
What if you could mock up prototypes that stakeholders can actually click through? You don't have to just pretend it works. Use a real GitHub PR workflow and mock a site all in less time than it takes to wireframe. Here’s how. www.builder.io/blog/mock-u...
A visual comparison of two development workflows. The top timeline moves from “Idea” through “Wireframe,” “Prototype,” and “Code” to “PR,” ending with a red X. The bottom skips intermediate steps, jumping from “Idea” directly to “PR,” with a dotted line labeled “Time saved” and a green checkmark.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 02/06/2025
Figma's new MCP server gives AI access to structured design data instead of screenshots. But is the resulting code pixel-perfect? I've put it to the test is my latest post. www.builder.io/blog/figma-...
Image illustrating Figma Model Context Protocol (MCP) translating a product card design (left, showing visual layers and dimensions) into a React code component structure (right, with placeholders like ProductImage, ProductName).
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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 17/05/2025
The word “login” comes from throwing a log attached to a rope with knots overboard a ship to see how many knots go by over time (see also, knots as speed). You’d then put that info in the “log book.” You’d “log in” on a regular basis. This wasn’t from 1959, it was likely from 1689! Etymology baby!
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 15/05/2025
My problem with vibe coding isn't the AI; it's the vibe. Many AI tools disrespect your team's hard work and talent. What we need is AI for grown-ups. Here's my thoughts on what that means. builder.io/blog/ai-for...
Visual comparison highlighting a preferred method for AI development. The "Vibe coding" approach (disapproved with a red X) shows a direct, simplistic request to "Create an ecommerce app". In contrast, "AI for grown-ups" (approved with a green checkmark) shows a more structured approach involving design (Figma), code, and data considerations feeding into the AI prompt.
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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · 07/05/2025
an AI agent that reminds me why I walked into a room
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 07/05/2025
ugh stop posting such relevant content
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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I want less girlboss & more girlfail having a very bad day but being very brave representation
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 05/05/2025
You can teach any agent to fish, but wouldn't you rather it know who to call to get fish on demand? This is what Google's new A2A protocol promises: your agent gets a list of contacts for when the questions get too tough. www.builder.io/blog/a2a-pro...
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 05/05/2025
AI agents are like Twitter devs: great solo, terrible at collaboration. MCP gave agents standardized tool access to information across the internet, but the story isn't done. A generalist agent with tons of tools still isn't as useful as an orchestrated network of specialists.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 05/05/2025
Yep. I’d rather a hastily thrown together diagram than some six-fingered action figures.
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 01/05/2025
This is dedication. 😁
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Alice Alexandra @alicealexandra.com · 28/04/2025
Teach the model once, and then let it work. In other words: fine-tuning. - 50 great examples > 5k-token prompt. - Tone of voice and tool calls get baked right into the model weights. - Adapters make this possible for all. No second mortgage for GPUs. www.builder.io/blog/fine-t...
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Fine-tune an LLM: Why, when, and how
Fine-tuning LLMs can save tokens, guarantee output formats, & bake in edge-case fixes. Learn when to fine-tune & how to do it effectively for your AI projects.
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