Claire Vo talks with Figma product manager Ezra Mechaber about PM OS, the 31 shared AI skills Figma's PMs use, and Auto XP, an agent setup that runs growth experiments with little human input.
"Claude Code had just come out and I started to realize there were things I could do in the terminal that were really interesting all of a sudden. ... It started just as a really simple repo inside of Claude Code as a TUI."
▶ Play at 3:39108 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Liam Ottley, and Peter Yang.
See all on the Claude Code page"Now I'm basically in Codex 100% of the time. One, I think browser use has gotten really good. ... But it's also a total beast at bug bashing."
▶ Play at 18:3097 creators recommend it, including Riley Brown, Dan Shipper, and John Coogan.
See all on the Codex page"We have these FigJam files that explain here's how to bug bash it. ... And then when it's done it writes back to the FigJam board all of the things that it has done."
▶ Play at 19:13"Instinct is this really sort of beautiful idea, like I'm really into it: what if you had a proactive agent, but instead of needing a website to visit or an app to use, it just texts you in iMessage. ... I have started like, 'Hey Siri, text Instinct there's a pothole at 269 Atl..."
▶ Play at 34:1918 creators recommend it, including Harry Stebbings, Kevin Rose, and Shaan Puri.
See all on the Instinct pageCloud-based design and prototyping tool used by product teams and designers
"Figma has an agent on the design canvas. I adore it. It's really, really good, but it is still subject to all of the latency that you get with all of these top tier models."
What Ezra uses it for: AI agent on the design canvas
31 creators recommend Figma, including Ali Abdaal, Greg Isenberg, Howard Lutnick.
"Now I'm basically in Codex 100% of the time. One, I think browser use has gotten really good. ... But it's also a total beast at bug bashing."
"Instinct is this really sort of beautiful idea, like I'm really into it: what if you had a proactive agent, but instead of needing a website to visit or an app to use, it just t..."
"The MCP for Figma is insane. I don't know if you get to use it on a regular basis, but I feel like I use the MCP all the time, and one of our PMs built this amazing FigJam build..."
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"Now I'm basically in Codex 100% of the time. One, I think browser use has gotten really good. ... But it's also a total beast at bug bashing."
"Instinct is this really sort of beautiful idea, like I'm really into it: what if you had a proactive agent, but instead of needing a website to visit or an app to use, it just t..."
"The MCP for Figma is insane. I don't know if you get to use it on a regular basis, but I feel like I use the MCP all the time, and one of our PMs built this amazing FigJam build..."
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"I love Codex. You could rip Codex out of my cold dead fingers."
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