Grinberg: Developers building for themselves risk missing core design tenets
Matan Grinberg · The AI Coding Factory · May 29, 2025 · at 56:27
Matan Grinberg, co-founder of Factory AI, discusses the value of non-engineering designers collaborating with technical teams building developer tools.
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“A lot of times it's kind of easy to fall victim to, oh, I'm building, like I'm the profile who I'm building for, so I know what's best. And that obviously works a lot of the time, but sometimes there are some like core design tenants that you just might not think of if you're building for yourself.”
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