Dylan Field

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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Taste is your Moat (Dylan Field of Figma) · 2 Oct 2025 podcast

You need to have some expertise about how software is built.

That lets you discretize the task, just like you would to an intern.

And you know, maybe it goes beyond intern level, but still, I'm not saying, okay, go build Figma and you, agent, are just gonna go figure out all the complexities of Figma.

Uh, I think that's just not something I see happening in any near-term future, even as longer range.

Running agents start to occur and um we've got better capabilities.

That's uh that's a long ways out.

Now maybe that's a high bar.

But you look at the actual uh workflows that happen with, you know, the very big SaaS applications.

Let's consider workday, for example, or Salesforce.

A lot of CIOs would, you know, love to go, okay, yeah, I've uh vibe coded workday, uh, and I just saved my company all this money or whatever.

But okay, you actually peek under the hood of a workday or a rippling.

These are very complex pieces of software that have accounted for every edge case that you can run into as you're thinking about your HRIS and the platform of data.

that you can tap into and then go build out from there into different workflows.

And they've done that through, you know, over in Work's case, decades, and Riplin's case, you know, not quite a decade, but also a lot of prior knowledge about what needs there are in the market.

And very intentionally built.

So I I'm skeptical that like without that knowledge of the workflows that people encounter, people

will actually make something that um can scale.

I think you run into the same problems that you've run into all along.

And uh and then it's a loop.

Maybe that loop goes a little faster, but it's not like just gonna replace.

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