Look, Everything Is... Code
My logo, covers, social cards, and LinkedIn banner are all scripts in a repo. 24 HTML files, one afternoon, here is the method.
My last article went out with five images. I wrote 24 HTML files by hand, rendered them through headless Chrome, and kept five - the cover alone took nine variants before one survived. Twenty-four files for five survivors is the method, not the embarrassment: nineteen renders I rejected by hand, one at a time, and each render is one command, so all twenty-four still fit in one afternoon.
Then code got cheap. That part is well documented - work that used to justify a contractor now costs an afternoon. Here is the part I claim as mine: when code gets cheap enough, it stops staying inside software. It invades things that were never code - my logo, my article covers, social cards for 20,000+ pages, my LinkedIn banner, even screenshots for docs.
#The four lessons
- The economics flipped. Writing code used to be the expensive part of making an asset. With an LLM it is the cheap part, so code invades work that was never code.
- Everything text wins. A logo in SVG is code, not an image. An agent can read a render's parser error and fix the source line; it cannot open a Figma file to do the same.
- Alignment comes free. My brand color is one constant in one file. The logo, the cards for 20,000+ pages, and the banner all derive from the same number - a design file cannot import anything.
- Judgment stayed expensive. The tool changed, not the job: I still rejected 19 of 24 renders by hand. Directing a model and judging its output is the skill that moved to the center.
Assets written as code can be aligned with each other, because they can share a value instead of resembling one.
Related: agentage.io · catalog.agentage.io · Agentage Galaxy on Obsidian · @vreshch on GitHub.