Field: Design requires iterative AI loops because prompts cannot capture full context
Dylan Field · No Priors Ep. 71: The Best of 2024 (so far) with Sarah Guo and Elad Gil · Jul 11, 2024 · at 5:05
Dylan Field, CEO and co-founder of Figma, discusses human-AI interaction models for product design on No Priors.
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“In the design context one thing that really matters a lot is the iterative loop and being able to keep going back and forth to an agent and give more instructions over time. If you just kind of like go to first principles here, there's so much that you're not able to communicate via a prompt.”
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