So for example, when … playwright … came out instead of having humans navigate the code now, the agent can explore the code. That was a big win unlock for productivity in a lot of our team.
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 05:20.
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.
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Eyal Blum (Figma), “How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage)”, AI Engineer (YouTube), 2026-08-28, at 05:20. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bn0xro2ol8 Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/figma-playwright-agent-explore-code-big-win-productivity-2026
the adoption is uneven. We have teams that are very AI-forward and have already transformed their entire workflows and then we have teams that are still experimenting in the earlier acts or have lost confidence
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 02:11.
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.
all of a sudden all the design docs and all the Slack messages and all the emails have gotten three or four times as long and … gotten two or three times as many emails and they say basically as much as they did before.
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 04:16.
Figma has pivoted very strongly from being a traditional tool to an AI-first tool. But in this talk, I'm not … talk about our product, I'm … talk more about our internal organization and how our engineering org has been adopting AI agents.
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 00:44.
I aligned with three other teams for another week on that and then I just sent it to an agent to implement overnight and it came back, this is probably from two … not one, but it's basically six weeks of coding work … only one week. So that's where I get … 5X speed up if I include the review cycle at the end…
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 11:20.
we've decided we always, every PR description will start with something like that, something that I wrote by hand … could be very short to describe what this is doing and what this is doing.
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 13:41.
because they're seeing … where you're lacking validation, where your tools fail. So, and their feedback is basically the roadmap of how to improve your agent …
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 12:02.
And so it's not uncommon to spend a week writing a very detailed plan, making all the decisions, flushing it out, iterating, sending it out to teammates to review. And then only when it's read and you've … out all the decision, … to the agent, the agent will send it back to you when it's implemented … has been really successful also in accelerating and also really restoring some of the joy into the development process.
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 08:07.
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