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We asked one specific question at launch. Nobody answered it. They asked something better instead.

When we launched last week, we ended the post with one specific ask: tell us where the wireframe to design to MCP handoff breaks for you. That was the part I actually wanted feedback on.

Nearly a week and two pages of comments later, I went back and read what people actually asked.

Almost nobody touched the handoff question. Instead, three different people asked some version of the same thing. Where does this actually sit next to the tool I already use, is it upstream of Lovable and Bolt or competing with them. Does the design intent survive once it reaches Cursor or Claude Code, or does it degrade like everything else that gets handed to an agent. Can I plug in a design.md I already have, or does using this mean throwing out what I built before.

Not one of those is the question I asked for. All three are more useful than the one I asked for.

I think what happened is that I was asking a builder's question, the kind you ask when you're deep in your own workflow and want to know if the mechanics hold up. The people commenting were asking a trust question first: where does this sit in what I already do, and what does it cost me to try it. You don't get to the mechanics question until the trust one is settled, and I skipped straight past it because I'd already answered it for myself months ago.

Small thing, but it's changed what I'm asking for next time. Not "where does the handoff break" but "where would this sit in what you're already doing, and what would it cost you to find out."

For anyone who's asked for feedback and gotten a different kind of answer than you expected: was it because the question you asked wasn't actually the blocker, or because people just answer whatever's easiest?

on August 10, 2026