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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Figma comes up
Simulating Humanity: from Generative Agents to 8 Billion Digital Twins — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI
- ▶ 53:55 Joon Sung Park So images, but also you can also imagine like these agents traversing through Figma mockups or websites.
- ▶ 1:10:28 Joon Sung Park Many of them actually come from places where we have personal connections with, so many of the members are from Figma, Notion, RV, and so forth, but also more broadly from the companies that we as a team have really admired.
🔬They Thought the Model Was Broken — Matt McPartlon & Neil Patil, Chai Discovery
- ▶ 0:00 Neil Patil Looks a lot less like a, you know, a ChatGPT and a lot more like, uh, Autodesk or SolidWorks or Figma, you know, if you've used those things where you can kind of load up your molecule.
- ▶ 41:49 Neil Patil And so if you kind of look at the CHI product, it, it looks a lot less like a, you know, a chat GPT and a lot more like a Autodesk or, or SolidWorks or Figma, you know, if you've used those things where you can kind of load up your…
⚡️Every product of the future will be a living system — Ronak Malde, Trajectory.ai
- ▶ 22:41 Ronak Malde So we, we have someone on the team from Stripe who is building a lot of backend SDKs, and then someone from Figma as well.
The Agent-Native Cloud: 3M Users, 100K Signups/Wk, Data Centers, & Death PRs — Jake Cooper, Railway
- ▶ 1:26:25 Jake Cooper They're moving into like the Figma kind of like stuff that they're, they're after. 2 times in the scene
The Stove Guy: Sam D'Amico Shows New AI Cooking Features on America's Most Powerful Stove at Impulse
- ▶ 24:55 Sam D'Amico She's already, like, two steps beyond this, but basically what we did is I was like, okay, ah, just give me the latest Figma, and I took the latest Figma using the Figma MCP and managed to get this running on here. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 15:10 Shawn Wang Um, I need to, I needed to add a Figma MCP to the coding agent that I use.
- ▶ 33:48 Shawn Wang Uh, and then this is like signing up for the Figma MCP.
- ▶ 34:00 Shawn Wang So like, here's a Figma file.
Agent Inference at the "Speed of Light" — How NVIDIA moves like a $4.3 Trillion Startup
- ▶ 4:38 Nader Khalil I was actually really proud of that because, uh, it was an, I made it in Figma. 3 times in the scene
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 59:39 Loïc Houssier We just use it for like a prototyping to be like as close because, uh, we have a founder that is very picky and wants to review the design and like a design on Figma is great, but like when you can click and do like real stuff, it's so… 3 times in the scene
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 3:12 Matthias Wagner Kind of like a similar journalist like Figma did, right?
- ▶ 8:15 Matthias Wagner It's like real-time collaborative as the Google Doc or Figma is, right?
- ▶ 42:29 Matthias Wagner It's very, like, similar to, like, Notion or Figma's go-to-market motion here, right?
The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
- ▶ 5:34 Alessio Fanelli You know, it was, I interviewed, um, Dylan Field from Figma yesterday.
Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma)
- ▶ 0:06 Alessio Fanelli This is Alessio, founder of Kernel Labs, and so happy to be at the Figma office today with Dylan Field. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:34 Alessio Fanelli So you have a background in, obviously, math and CS, and now you run Figma, so you have this kind of, like, duality of, like, aesthetics and code. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:53 Alessio Fanelli I built the Figma clone in Figma make, so you guys are, are cooked. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:17 Alessio Fanelli I'm curious how you think about the Figma model, so to speak, that almost Figma data model of you have Figma design, which is like where the visual work happens.
- ▶ 8:32 Alessio Fanelli And then you have the Figma MCP, which is like, how do you bring that into code in a way that it's not even
- ▶ 14:08 Alessio Fanelli So for example, right now in Figma, I use the MCP to bring that code into cursor, my actual code base, but there's no way yet. 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:54 Dylan Field I think that, um, it's okay if, for example, in some times that code is source of truth, and you'll see us do a lot of work to make it so that you're able to bring your code-based design system into something like Figma Make or Figma… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:16 Alessio Fanelli It's like, if you just took any piece that is in Figma individually, it doesn't look like anything. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:23 Alessio Fanelli You know, it's like, even if I had, even if Figma was AGI, I still wouldn't necessarily know what to ask for. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:58 Alessio Fanelli You also have, you know, slides.
- ▶ 45:14 Dylan Field Oh, I mean, I try to just like search for Figma a lot and, um, see what people are saying, but also I've like trained my algo feed to show me a lot of stuff that's relevant to Figma. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 48:25 Alessio Fanelli And so I think a lot of people are maybe like, well, why isn't Figma just going to be like Sketch and blah, blah, blah. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:03 Dylan Field Even further than just, okay, I can copy a state and put in figma design and tweak it.
- ▶ 59:37 Dylan Field We used to have, in the early days of Figma, we used to do draft nights.
⚡️Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Anthropic's roadmap for Agents and Developers — Mike Krieger, Anthropic
- ▶ 6:45 Mike Krieger And it might not be customized to your, you know, company style just yet, unless you're, you know, uh, creating something in something like Figma make, but, you know, is it a good foundation that you can build upon? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:42 Mike Krieger I actually think Figma did a really good job with Make in that they, um, 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, and…
⚡️No, Don't Do Palantir for AI - Brendan Falk, Hercules (AUDIO FIXED)
- ▶ 26:21 Brendan Falk And so one world, you have Figma.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 1:07:56 Kevin Hou They're going to take, you know, Figma artboards and convert them into component into UIs that were built by your own components.
- ▶ 3:24:07 Kevin Hou You're gonna be tracking tickets inside of JIRA, and then you might have a designer who's actually working in Figma in parallel, putting together all this material. 2 times in the scene
Cline: The Collaborative AI Coder
- ▶ 23:53 Shawn Wang Firecrawl, Puppeteer, uh, Figma.
Personalized AI Language Education — with Andrew Hsu, Speak
- ▶ 1:45 Andrew Hsu But the first two years, I mean, there are some crazy successes, you know, Dylan from Figma.
Information Theory for Language Models: Jack Morris
- ▶ 1:00:34 Jack Morris I was using Figma for a while and illustrator.
⚡️Warp 2.0: the Agentic Development Environment - Zach Lloyd and Ben Holmes
- ▶ 48:03 Zach Lloyd And like Figma was like, you know, successful with adding, you know, making design collaborative. 2 times in the scene
Quadratic: The AI Spreadsheet
- ▶ 2:43 Shawn Wang So I think like the other thing I really like was the original pitch was like, it's kind of like a Figma for spreadsheets where you can kind of zoom in and out really nicely
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 14:59 Eric Simons Cause there's Figma.
- ▶ 1:13:41 Eric Simons Like, you think, think about a web development agency before this thing, they're going in using Figma to make a design.
Agents @ Work: Lindy.ai (with live demo!)
- ▶ 50:12 Florent Crivello InVision, you know, is no more, and Figma, like, completely took off, and Figma was, like, very in person. 3 times in the scene
Production AI Engineering starts with Evals
- ▶ 0:23 unnamed speaker You ran it for six years, got acquired into Figma, where you were at for eight months, and you just celebrated your one-year anniversary at Braintrust.
- ▶ 16:27 unnamed speaker And I was like, what the hell is Figma acquiring this kind of company? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:25 unnamed speaker Okay, maybe we'll spend a little bit on Figma. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:28 unnamed speaker Figma AI, I, you know,
- ▶ 29:09 unnamed speaker Yeah, I think everyone's keen on that dev mode was, uh, I think the first segue into that.
- ▶ 39:47 Ankur Goyal You can share it, and it's collaborative, kind of like Google Docs, Notion, Figma, etc.
- ▶ 1:04:16 Ankur Goyal I mean, I was at Figma when we were, like, we used Datadog, and we built our own prompt playground.
- ▶ 1:15:11 Ankur Goyal The problem is that I had a fantastic opportunity to see these things play out at Figma. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:52:41 Ankur Goyal When I joined Figma, if you just look at my profile, I really don't mean this to sound arrogant, but like, if you look at my profile, it seems kind of obvious that if I were to start another company, there would be some VC interest. 2 times in the scene
This World Does Not Exist — Joscha Bach, Karan Malhotra, Rob Haisfield (WorldSim, WebSim, Liquid AI)
- ▶ 30:01 Rob Haisfield Um, you know, uh, I was exploring the community plug-in section for Figma, and I came to this idea of dynamic typography, and there it's like, oh, what if we, uh, made it so every word had a choice of font behind it. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:18 Rob Haisfield So this, uh, this was one, uh, Dylan field actually posted this recently, like trying Figma in Figma or in web sim. 3 times in the scene
High Agency Pydantic over VC Backed Frameworks — with Jason Liu of Instructor
- ▶ 41:43 unnamed speaker Um, as I, one of your tweets in January, 23, you applied to like Figma, Notion, Cohere, Anthropic, and all of them rejected you because you didn't have enough LLM experience.
The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw
- ▶ 11:30 Steve Ruiz It was very much like, you know, Framer, Figma, et cetera. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:18 Steve Ruiz And so I was either going to go work for Figma or Adobe, uh, and I ended up going with Adobe in part because I think 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:45 Steve Ruiz The, the dev day was happening at OpenAI, and in the morning I woke up and I was getting all this kind of, you know, action on Twitter because a developer at Figma had used TealDraw to make this little demo where you could draw a website 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:22 unnamed speaker I, I think I get now that I was going to ask about like Figma, FigJam, and like they have some AI thing that they're also doing. 4 times in the scene