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What Dylan Field thinks about LLMs

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Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

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  1. Our readingAI cannot get a product to the quality bar on its own, because it still works in the realm of averages.

    Their wordsAnd AI won't get you there alone. AI is uh still in the realm of kind of law of averages and uh better prompting can help of course

    ↗Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Fieldyoutube.com 3rd of 22 in this recording

  3. Our readingThe one safe bet about AI is that models will improve, so what a company has to build is an organisation that gets better as models get better.

    Their wordsthe only thing that we know is that models will improve. Will it be incremental? Will it be exponential? I mean somewhere in between. Who knows? But uh what you have to believe is that you get better as models get better. Your organization gets better as models get better.

    ↗Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Fieldyoutube.com 17th of 22 in this recording

  5. Our readingAI does not remove a job so much as change what it consists of, and knowing exactly where a model's capabilities stop is now part of being a good engineer.

    Their wordstake prompting and as an engineer, there's a range of prompting abilities. uh the way you discretize and split up your task matters. And if you assume that uh a model can do more than it can do, then you're going to have a bad time.

    ↗Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Fieldyoutube.com 20th of 22 in this recording

  7. Our readingA company can treat AI as a way to grow and do more or as a cost-cutting exercise, and the growth reading is the better one.

    Their wordsyou can either see AI as an opportunity for your company to grow and do more or you can look at it as like cost cutting efficiency but I think the growth part is way more exciting.

    ↗Figma’s CEO: Why AI makes design, craft, and quality the new moat for startups | Dylan Fieldyoutube.com 21st of 22 in this recording