young_mete

Will be taking this for a spin imminently. What seems to be very unique here vs other canvas tools are the generative UI controls. If you’re confused about why everyone is shipping their own canvas to…

You need leverage to do that (I.e we don’t have alternatives), which they’re losing quickly.

Paper Design etc all have the same fundamental problem as Figma - they’re designed for a process that won’t exist as we know it within a few years (and arguably half way there already). All of these c…

Well put.

I think that's an organizational muscle memory. Not a thing at startups anymore and to your point will dissipate in bigger companies quickly.

Yes ^ thanks for the link

Whoever is able to act as the central store for all your context and be the integration point for all your agents running on top (including your proprietary ones) will have leverage in the ecosystem. …

It is truly staggering to see a tool used by (almost) every large tech company in the world so quickly lose ground. I don't think they're done done, but their position in the value chain has…

Yep, my experience as well coming from Big Tech although they'll be buoyed by intertia for some time. And yes, source of truth just makes more sense in code, so I don't think there's mu…

Long-term yes. Assuming we'll reach a world where an agent is your primary interface, has access to all you need, and will spin up dynamic UIs for you when needed.

I'm sure that's part of it but I think it's a very small part of the story. They've been pushing hard on internal AI creation tools for a while, and those clearly didn't take …

I don’t think so. Your product / tool has to be extremely specialized and deeply necessary to pull of a walled garden MCP. The more likely alternatives are that someone else comes along with a be…

I agree. I also tried Figma’s MCP tools (wrote about it here - https://metedata.substack.com/p/metedata-digest-003-where-do... ) and found it very underwhelming. The result is les…

Definitely don’t believe AI is going to “one-shot” Figma. But Figma was built for a world where product design is a stand-alone step in a series of discrete steps with hand-offs between them. It was a…

I think that also explains why a bunch of companies are now all racing to build the same thing - the everything-in-one-place universal context store with their own agents on top of it. Linear, Notion,…

The combinatorial utility of different MCPs / APIs inside an agent is an interesting angle. Figma can technically plug into the same MCPs and use all the same models, but if the software design p…