Figma ($FIG) podcast mentions
Per Ticker.id: 6 Figma ($FIG) mentions across 2 podcasts (30 days) — timestamped, verifiable quotes, updated 2026-10-05.
You too. Thank you. Goodbye. Let me tell you about Figma. Agents meet the canvas. Your AI agents can now create and modify your Figma files with design system context. We got TJ Parker back on the show 4 times. 4-timer club. He's joining the 4-timer club. This is his 4th time on the show. TJ Parker. Welcome to DBPN. How are you doing?
John Coogan · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06I heard part of it, and it was funny because I was just thinking that Christmas came early. We launched launched Figma Design Agent today. So there you go.
Dylan Field · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06I mean, it's been awesome. We've been working on this for a while. We've had the beta going and just been hill climbing. The team has done an incredible job. Yeah. Of, uh, not just working with our own first-party models. Yeah. Uh, Frontier models, but also really thinking about how do we make this great for our users? Yeah. And so much more to do, but yeah, today's launch, uh, you'll see that the Figma agent's faster, higher quality. Uh, it has better ability to deal with context across your files. Yep. And, um, more overall agentic capability. Yeah. Uh, I would say it's improved quite a bit on design systems. We still have more room to go on all the dimensions. Definitely design systems too. Yeah. But, um, really proud of the launch and finding myself, uh, really enjoying using the Figma agent on the canvas. And I think as we think about just kind of where it all goes, um, there's so much that you can do in the canvas.
Dylan Field · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06Superintelligence, it's the goal. I'm joking. No, man. We're trying to make like the best design agent. Yeah. To empower designers. We are not trying to replace designers. We're trying to make it so they are maximally empowered. Yeah. Uh, in their work, which does mean helping them make PRs. Yeah. Helping them go even further with their work, helping them get all the context they need to go make decisions. Yeah. Uh, and it does so happen that like after all this time building Figma, the team, uh, really does understand the needs of designers and what we need to do to go achieve that. And I think that is just as much a part of the special sauce over time. Yeah.
Dylan Field · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06I think there's a bunch of points in there and it's like, oh, they're all interesting. The, uh, maybe we'll start with just the overall setup that we have and what we're really caring about for this product, which is we don't, again, we're not trying to replace designers, we're trying to empower them. And as we think about that, what does that mean? Well, it means that as you're trying to get something in your head onto the canvas, we've talked about this before, you might be aided by prompting. And also it might be the case that that's just the starting point. You might have to do more work and that requires more integration with a global system of Figma. And so you kind of have to teach the models Figma first and make it so that they can understand how to go and work with Figma as well as do good design work.
Dylan Field · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06But I think that right now you'll probably see, you know, just as much of the slop side across all products and in AI. I hope you'll see less in Figma. We are working to make it so that there's less and less and less and better and higher quality results. But also it's, it's taste is a wild thing in that different people in different domains have different definitions. And so the ultimate is how do we make sure that we can understand what you're going for and give it to you?
Dylan Field · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06How are you thinking about interfacing with AI as a top of funnel? I think everyone saw the Blender moment when everyone was modeling everything in their world in Blender and the AI community and AI enthusiast community was downloading and installing Blender. And it feels like there's immense value if you can be a button there, or even just the top-of-funnel agent says, hey, you've been working on this business idea. I did a first draft of a logo, but you should take this much further. Why don't I hand off to Figma, get you set up there, even pass along credit card details? There could be a really deep integration, but then there's always difficulties on where the value accrues and whatnot. How have you been— dealing with those potential trade-offs in an increasingly AI agentic top-of-funnel world?
John Coogan · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06And I think that Weave is another area for Figma, where we're really trying to figure out how to help people do this, both use models, get all the power from them, but still apply their own judgment, creativity, taste, and really shape it. The model outputs like clay rather than just trying to go for the one shot. The one shot's rarely where you want to land and end up.
Dylan Field · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06Where do you— feels like people on the timeline have been doing Figma's marketing for you in some ways where every other day there's somebody like, if you send me an AI-generated slide deck, I won't even take the meeting. Oh, yeah.
Jordi Hays · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06And because of that, I came up with this whole sort of rule for Figma, which is let's just have it be that you put written with AI at the top of messages. Where there's AI writing of any kind. And, you know, if you're using AI to like spell check, essentially proofread, and you change a word, I don't care if you write the whole thing with AI or there's a good paragraph in there. Yeah, just put it right with AI. It's easy. Yeah, no big deal. And that way we can trust that if you're sending something, you care about it and you've thought through it. And I think that in general, people should not give up on their own thinking. They cannot give that to the model. And I see so many people that are essentially looking for the shortcut, trying to make it so that they can have maybe less than Figma, more outside of Figma. But folks are eager for the model to automate for them, for them, the model to think for them.
Dylan Field · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06I've noticed in the process of making decks, like my best decks, always the outline took like 20 minutes max where I just like actually had clarified, like you want to— there's, there's increased clarity that comes from trying to communicate an idea or a company or a product or a launch or a campaign, like you're gonna naturally get more clarity on the topic as you explain it in a way that is sort of logical and has a consistent narrative. And then there's times that I've opened this sort of my like deck outline in Figma that I've shared at this point with like over probably 100 founders, right? 'Cause I spend so much time on this. I have example slides for each slide and structuring and all this stuff. And there's been times I've landed in that and I'm just wrestling with it for hours and hours and hours, not making progress.
Jordi Hays · TBPN · Le Chonk, Buffett Discovers YouTube, The Case Against AI Job Doom | Greg Fleming, TJ Parker, Joowon Kim, Rick Dungey, Dylan Field, Hardik Kabaria · 2026-10-06Folks sort of ask that question in a VC meeting, maybe give us the answer and how you think about it because hey, if you actually are training a frontier model right now how to do this, There have been leaks. Uh, Cursor felt like Anthropic stole their business. Figma, you know, Claude Design, OpenAI, you know, and many different partners. There's been a reticence, uh, a reticence to, to put your data into those. And so many of them, Lovables and ElevenLabs of the world, companies similar to yours, uh, who are making verticalized apps have thought, hey, maybe I should just take Deepseek, GLM, 5X and fork it. And not put this data into the frontier models, including people solving very advanced math problems have had this problem, uh, with OpenAI as well. I know they're one of your investors, so I'm not asking you to speak ill of them, but I'm also curious what your observation is and strategy is around that.
Jason Calacanis · This Week in Startups · Jason Mentors The Next Generation + Why AI Is Bad at Teaching (Aristotle Interview) | E2346 · 2026-10-05Take me through it. But first, let me tell you about Figma. Agents, meet the canvas. Your AI agents can now create and modify your Figma files with design system context.
John Coogan · TBPN · AI Video Game Mods, Should You Sell Your Data, Bryan Johnson on Endurance Racing | Sean Frank, Linda Du, Ali Partovi, Sigil Wen, Jerry Wu, Bryan Johnson · 2026-10-05Yeah. And you know, I'm a big believer that, you know, the labs are going to do what they're going to do and they're going to keep growing. And they obviously are great baselines for everything. But in so many of these markets, you're seeing really specialized products that are really focused, knowing who their audience is and what they're doing, that's able to build really custom things. You know, if you want to make music just for fun or for something that you're really producing, Suno is an incredible tool and it speaks to you from the moment you start using it through the end. You know, ElevenLabs, if you need voice and audio within the product that you're making, it just has a way of working and interacting with it that feels completely different. When you look at a bunch of the video tools, you know, when you look at design tools, even like Figma, like they're so designed to use deeply for the thing you're trying to express yourself and it speaks to designers, not to people who, you know, wanna just skip that step.
Josh Elman · The a16z Show · The Top 100 Consumer AI Apps: Who’s Actually Paying? · 2026-10-05The other thing that I think Alex Karp of Palantir has been talking about is that there's like a risk that when you work closely with the foundation model companies is that they're going to move into your business. And we've seen that with Figma vis-à-vis Anthropic. We've seen that with like now Harvey and OpenAI. And, you know, it's really hard to partner with them. And because, you know, they're they see the world as their potential market, right? Like, I mean, when they talk to investors, they're like, you know, you saw the SpaceX S-1, it was like, oh, $30 trillion. It's like, what is the world GDP? $100 trillion? And so there is a sense in which these companies are different than other generations of companies. It's harder to partner with them because their ambition is such that they want to be they want to subsume a big part of the economy.
Amjad Masad · The a16z Show · Beyond the God Model | Alex Atallah & Amjad Masad · 2026-10-03