It likely would have become so complex, slow, and expensive that our product might never have even shipped.

Instead, we considered the problem and said, well, how can we solve this without AI? How far can we get before it gets impossible without the types of specialized decision-making AI is best at?

So we broke the problem down and said, okay, we need to convert each of these nodes to things we can represent in code.

We needed to understand, in detail, working with elements such as images, backgrounds, and foregrounds. And most importantly, we needed to intricately understand how to make any input responsive.

After that, we started considering more complex examples and realized there are lots of cases where many, many layers would need to be turned into one image.