Figma

“Dylan field actually posted this recently, like trying Figma in Figma or in web sim.”

“The problem is that the challenge in deploying vector search has very little to do with vector search itself, and much more to do with the data adjacent to vector search. So, for example, if you are at Figma, the Vector search is not actually the hard problem.…”

“Vectors are very difficult because they're a data inefficient representation, so the vector format in something like Figma Is choose up like many, many, many, many, many more tokens than HTML and JSX. So it's a very difficult medium to just sort of throw into …”

“And three, Figma is kind of like Apple, a company that is really optimized around a periodic, like annual release cycle rather than something that's continuous.”

“In every one of these examples, you have a co-located counterfactual that is sometimes orders of magnitude bigger.”

“I think Figma honestly is now like in the developer space. Like, I don't know if you all have tried any of their tools, like they're further up the like app building kind of stack, like competing with more with like lovable and bolt, but it's like every compan…”

“But in the future, they're going to generate documentation. They're going to generate commit messages, code reviews, code scanning. They're going to take, you know, Figma artboards and convert them into component into UIs that were built by your own components…”

“And candidly, I think that ChatGPT is going to come in and replace a lot of that because that's what they did in a GBT five demo. They were really showing that off. These things are not designed for production. It's just another reason to come to ChatGPT. So I…”

“I actually think Figma did a really good job with Make in that they you can tell that there's much more of a bridge between the sort of underlying design model and what the LLMs are doing in kind of coordination between Sonnet”

“Your strategy should always be okay. Assume AI models get better, and make sure that makes Figma better. As long as I believe that's true, I'm happy. If not, change strategy. Like, that's the algorithm.”

“Across the female platform, we should do our best to find ways to help people explore more of the space of aesthetic rather than impose like a personal viewpoint on aesthetic.”

“If somebody needs to be sold so hard, it's usually a sign they're not gonna stick around.”

“I also think that it's going to be something that as we move forward in time with more Asians writing more parts of your code base, you will also be less familiar with the code. And so then you might want a different abstraction where you're able to work on th…”

“I'm not saying, okay, go build Figma, and you, agent, are just gonna go figure out all the complexities of Figma. I think that's just not something I see happening in any near term future, even as longer range running agents start to occur and we've got better…”

“That's not like a comment on oh, front-end engineering is dead. There's so much more to front-end engineering. Than just that translation step. That's kind of like the most mechanical part, and actually thinking through all the states, all the intended behavio…”

“The person that we were doing the user test with, this guy named Payam, who's an amazing designer, then was working at Coursera. And the next day, he followed up with, like, this super long doc. I mean, it was eight to 10 pages. And it laid out basically a lot…”

“What I've found is very good engineers who are just more full stack and oriented towards learning new things, they can be quite successful on AI products.”