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Insights on AI code generation, compiler architecture, and building production-ready software from design files.

How CodeFlow Lab's IR Canonicalisation Eliminates Layout Drift
Architecture
July 6, 202610 min read

How CodeFlow Lab's IR Canonicalisation Eliminates Layout Drift

Every AI code generator copies Figma's raw pixel values literally — 17px padding, 13px gap, 284px width. CodeFlow Lab's IR canonicalisation converts those artifacts into token-aligned, responsive layout declarations before a single line of React is emitted. Here's exactly how, with real before/after JSON and component output.

CodeFlow Lab

Marcello Cultrera

Founder, CodeFlow Lab

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Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Science for Global Challenges and Industrial Transformation — The Software Delivery Bottleneck Nobody Talks About
Architecture
July 6, 20269 min read

Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Science for Global Challenges and Industrial Transformation — The Software Delivery Bottleneck Nobody Talks About

Every serious conversation about global challenges eventually becomes a conversation about software. The binding constraint on applying AI and data science to the world's hard problems is rarely the intelligence of the models — it is the capacity to turn intent into working, trustworthy, maintainable software.

CodeFlow Lab

Marcello Cultrera

Founder, CodeFlow Lab

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The AI Coherence Problem — and Why We Built a Compiler Instead of a Generator
Architecture
July 3, 20267 min read

The AI Coherence Problem — and Why We Built a Compiler Instead of a Generator

Large language models are locally fluent and globally inconsistent. Every team building with AI agents in 2026 has hit this failure without naming it. Here's how we solved it architecturally.

CodeFlow Lab

Marcello Cultrera

Founder, CodeFlow Lab

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Design-to-Code Isn't Failing Because of Complexity. It's Failing Because of Coherence.
Architecture
March 11, 20264 min read

Design-to-Code Isn't Failing Because of Complexity. It's Failing Because of Coherence.

We keep blaming complex UIs. But the real problem isn't sophistication — it's that most tools flatten your Figma file into pixels and lose everything that matters: hierarchy, tokens, constraints, intent.

CodeFlow Lab

Marcello Cultrera

Founder, CodeFlow Lab

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We Stopped Shipping AI-Generated Code That Hasn't Been Verified. Here's How.
Product
March 10, 20265 min read

We Stopped Shipping AI-Generated Code That Hasn't Been Verified. Here's How.

Every Figma-to-code conversion at CodeFlow Lab now runs through a self-correcting loop — the system checks its own output, fixes issues autonomously, and confirms quality before you ever see the result.

CodeFlow Lab

Marcello Cultrera

Founder, CodeFlow Lab

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From Design to Deploy:
How to Reclaim Your Creative Flow State
Productivity
January 21, 20255 min read

From Design to Deploy: How to Reclaim Your Creative Flow State

The brutal truth about modern development: You're spending 80% of your time on 20% of the creative work. Here's how deterministic compilation changes everything.

CodeFlow Lab

CodeFlow Team

Product

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Alignment by Construction: Why Deterministic Pipelines Matter for AI Code Generation
Architecture
January 15, 20256 min read

Alignment by Construction: Why Deterministic Pipelines Matter for AI Code Generation

Traditional AI code generators treat LLMs as autonomous agents. We treat them as compilers. Here's why that distinction matters for production software.

CodeFlow Lab

CodeFlow Team

Engineering

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Why Most Figma-to-Code Tools Only Achieve 20-30% Fidelity
Product
January 10, 20255 min read

Why Most Figma-to-Code Tools Only Achieve 20-30% Fidelity

We analyzed 50+ design-to-code conversions across popular tools. Here's what we found about the fidelity gap—and how to close it.

CodeFlow Lab

CodeFlow Team

Product

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IR-First Architecture: Why We Support React, Flutter, and Vue from One Design
Engineering
January 5, 20257 min read

IR-First Architecture: Why We Support React, Flutter, and Vue from One Design

Most AI coding tools treat each framework as a separate black-box generation task. We took a different approach with our Intermediate Representation.

CodeFlow Lab

CodeFlow Team

Engineering

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