How to build your own internal tool
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We just published the state of prototyping report for 2026 and this is a wild stat. Designers who are AI coding rate their workflow satisfaction a seven out of 10 and everyone else reported a five. But what's interesting is many of these designers are building their own tools for themselves and things like sliders, these little utilities, things that make their lives easier in their workflows. And this is interesting because the friction has always been in the dev setup. So I decided to try something with the tool Caffeine. We made all of our survey data open through an API, the MCP server, and a downloadable CSV. So I pulled the survey data from 2024 using Caffeine to see how fast I could go from raw data to visualizations. I prompted it, it spun up the workspace, hit the APIs, and sudden…