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It's actually our best engineer. … they know where all the pitfalls are. They are … together with like their mental duct tape, all the places that agents are not working well and they're preventing all the really bad stuff from coming in … slower to adapt because they see all the problem …

Eyal BlumSoftware Engineer · Practitioner, Figma

Talk: How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage), AI Engineer (YouTube), August 28, 2026, at 03:27.

Checked against the source [ Grade B ] Said in the last year Sells AI tools

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Who is speaking

Eyal Blum, Software Engineer. Describes how Figma's engineering organization has adopted coding agents, including his own team's practices and planned agent work; an insider, though Figma sells AI features.

Figma sells AI or agent tooling, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.

How this was checked

Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-11-01).

Whisper SRT 00:03:27-00:04:01. Each fragment matches, and the '…' marks omitted words ('calling' before 'together', the 'or all they have…' stretch). 'slower to adapt because they see all the problem' is at 00:03:58.

How to cite this passage

Eyal Blum (Figma), “How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage)”, AI Engineer (YouTube), 2026-08-28, at 03:27. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bn0xro2ol8 Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/figma-best-engineer-know-pitfalls-mental-duct-tape-slower-adapt-2026

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