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Stop Wasting Tokens: How a Stable Component Layer Ends UI Regen Waste

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Stop Wasting Tokens: How a Stable Component Layer Ends UI Regen Waste

The token count understates it. The real waste is the re-decisions.

Lovable, Bolt, v0, Cursor — pick your favorite. They ship a working UI in under a minute from a one-line prompt, and that part is genuinely magic. The painful part is what happens on session two: the same agent regenerates the same Button, the same Card, the same spacing scale, the same focus-ring color — from scratch — and burns 800–1500 tokens doing work it already did last Tuesday.

[[COMPARE: regenerate UI from scratch vs extend a shared component kit]]


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