Dylan Field

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

I'm like tired.

Uh he's like, well, just like if you're thinking about recruiting in all these moments,

Moments where you just have a moment, uh have a second to pause, and you're action on it, then it'll fix itself.

And the way that I think can manifest as a process is you just basically make a spreadsheet of here's my funnel and you obsessively look at it all the time and go, okay, like how do I make sure that this funnel uh keeps going?

Just like you would with uh sales if you're a salesperson.

You have to continue to feed the funnel, you have to move people through it.

And if you're not doing that, you're not regreting.

So yeah, you have to be very disciplined, which is something that, you know, I'm I have to push myself to.

I I like to kind of be in the cloud.

One thing that's been interesting is that uh yes, of course, we've hired amazing researchers who are pushing the boundaries and thinking, you know, in a way that's, you know, on its own life cycle in terms of not as tied to, okay, we have an explicit date we're trying to release on, because that's just not how research works.

But what I've found is um very good engineers who are just more full stack and

Oriented towards learning new things, they can be quite successful on AI products.

There's some reorientation they might need to do.

They might need to, of course, learn new skills, just like designers need to learn new skills.

But in general, we're looking for smart, high-agency people who have product sense, who care about design, who see the world the way that we do.

And one of

learn skills and keep growing and work on hard problems.

I I think that's the filter that's always been the case for Figma.

And um if that resonates with people, the

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