Figma Make: DON'T REWRITE EVERYTHING!

​@Grant Hansen how did you manage to get access to Figma Make? 

Refreshing Figma sites every day hoping to see the “coming soon” disappear. 

Yeah, Figma Make rewrites the entire code file even for small changes. Hopefully they fix that to speed up code generation.

It’s hit or miss for me. Even when I use the point and edit tool and reference a single div, sometimes it just changes that div (expected) but sometimes it rewrites the entire .tsx. super frustrating. 

This still keeps happening for me. Sometimes it even happens if I use the “Pointer” and ask it to make a change to only that piece of the UI or component. Really odd.

This also seems to probably cause extra credits/tokens to be used, which is not great from a billing  and cost standpoint too.

Yes. Even when I point to the exact section I want it to refine, it’ll go a rebuild almost everything. Which then introduces errors I have to reprompt to fix. 

One thing that’s worked better for me, that I started doing, is asking it to break up pages and main areas of the UI into separate component files. This has helped a lot.

Figma Make should be smart enough to do this, and it does sometimes, but usually it'll just keep adding to one big file.

I’ve had a similar issue lately, where after asking to add a new feature or functionality to an existing Make design, it attempts to refactor the design from scratch and completely loses all progress to that point. It essentially takes me back to square 1 before the many iterations that went into the design. I’ve tried different things to get it not to refactor but nothing works. It just goes ahead and does it anyway and breaks the design. 

I am having the exact same problems, especially with tab content. I asked it to add in a simple checklist within one of the tabs and it re-worked nearly all of the content and layout within the kanban card. I then took the time to fix it and asked to add in ONE additional field, and again, it re-worked the whole layout...

Same problem. At first I thought, ‘wow - this will speed up prototyping so much!’ 

But after spending 6+ hours yesterday trying to get it to fix the things it breaks when I ask it to do something, I’m about ready to give up on it. It removes photos, changes icons, changes layout and design, breaks, doesn’t do anything, does the same thing (wrong) over and over and over. It’s so frustrating. It feels like it’s actually getting DUMBER, not smarter. How can an Ai from a design tool not understand something as basic as centering text? 

I would be so angry to get billed for prompts when I have to ask it 100x why it removed a photo. I’m moving on to Cursor.

there is no way an AI is this dumb, its like it does what it wants and keep breaking the app as it feels, then you prompt it for days and still no solution. You have to hope to god you have a back up or you have to throw months of work down the drain and the customer service literally also has no resolve and has no idea what to do themselves. how is this even possible. Do they just let this AI intentionally break apps or something?