Design tokens were supposed to make our lives easier—but now they’re eating us alive. What started as a way to create harmony between design and code has turned into an endless maze of abstractions, debates, and JSON files nobody understands. This is the story of how our obsession with consistency turned design systems into bureaucracies.

AI can mimic style but not taste. As machines start acting like art directors, they can generate infinite beauty — yet none of it means anything. This article dives into why true taste requires emotion, risk, and rebellion — things no algorithm will ever feel.