Rebuilding Airbnb From Scratch — Starting With the Design System

I've started an experimental project to explore a question that's been on my mind lately: how much does AI really boost productivity without sacrificing code quality?

The idea is to build an Airbnb clone, starting from the foundation — a complete Design System that will serve as the base for replicating the app's main visual and functional components.

What makes this project unique is the method: I'm using AI aggressively to generate components, structure styles and suggest code patterns through prompts.

With this, I want to understand how much it actually speeds up development; which standards and best practices are followed (or ignored); and how much effort it takes to transform AI-generated code — often unstructured and inconsistent — into something scalable, maintainable and production-ready.

The component library is documented in Storybook, and it's a work in progress. It's less about the destination and more about measuring, honestly, where AI helps and where taste and structure still have to step in.