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we did an off site with every PM at Figma this spring where we had everyone install it, use it, hack on it, come up with like what was good, what was bad, just like roast it. And so some of the skills that are in here came out of that. Some of the skills either got whittled down or whittled away. … I would say as the models have gotten better, I've been trying to basically take stuff out that's no longer useful.

Ezra MechaberGrowth product manager, Figma · Practitioner, Figma

Context. Mechaber is describing how the skills in Figma's PM OS were chosen and trimmed.

Podcast: The AI chief of staff that this Figma PM uses all day (How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo), How I AI (YouTube), November 2, 2026, at 12:32.

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Who is speaking

Ezra Mechaber, Growth Product Manager. Built and uses the tools he describes (PM OS, a browser-based bug-bash agent, Auto XP) in his own work at Figma; an insider describing his team's practice, though Figma sells AI features and the results are self-reported.

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

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Whisper transcript, around 12:00 to 12:40. 'we did an off site with every PM at Figma this spring where we had everyone install it, use it, hack on it, come up with like what was good, what was bad, just like roast it… whittled down or whittled away.' The ellipsis covers the interviewer's 'That's that's great…' back-and-forth, not a gap in the speaker's own sentence. Word for word.

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Ezra Mechaber (Figma), “The AI chief of staff that this Figma PM uses all day (How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo)”, How I AI (YouTube), 2026-11-02, at 12:32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztt8irafLMQ Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/figma-pm-os-offsite-every-pm-install-hack-roast-whittled-2026

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And so I call it Auto XP. And right now one of our engineers is running it and has like five different experiments going that I have not taken a look at … and it found a huge win on its very first experiment. … there are three cursor automations that trigger based on stuff in Slack. Auto XP has its own channel where it can communicate with itself.

Ezra MechaberGrowth product manager, Figma · Practitioner, Figma

Context. Mechaber is describing Auto XP, an automated agent setup at Figma for running growth experiments.

Podcast: The AI chief of staff that this Figma PM uses all day (How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo), How I AI (YouTube), November 2, 2026, at 23:39.

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And the goal for all of this is the only time you're allowed to look is before you launch the experiment. So you review the data science findings, the hypotheses, the UX writing and the code all at once. So like one human touch. And then it launches and then you can review whether or not it's a winner or loss, but it has already started iterating on the next rounds. I would say like where we are in theory is pretty like is great, where we are in practice is almost there. … we're now at like five live concurrent experiments on things that we would not have been doing otherwise.

Ezra MechaberGrowth product manager, Figma · Practitioner, Figma

Context. Mechaber is describing how Auto XP, his team's automated growth-experiment setup, hands work to a person.

Podcast: The AI chief of staff that this Figma PM uses all day (How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo), How I AI (YouTube), November 2, 2026, at 25:48.

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And so Astra is just much, much more diligent about following directions than I am. And so I will run it through and I will say … keep doing all of these specifically and just like it will run for all of these scenarios and it will use the browser. And it's a dream. And then when it's done, it writes out back to the fig jam board of all of the things that it has done.

Ezra MechaberGrowth product manager, Figma · Practitioner, Figma

Context. Mechaber is describing how he uses a coding agent with a browser to bug bash a redesign of Figma's request modals.

Podcast: The AI chief of staff that this Figma PM uses all day (How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo), How I AI (YouTube), November 2, 2026, at 19:49.

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Yeah, so it's a really, really basic repo. And so it's got an agents.md, which just tells it how to behave. It's got a bunch of related skills that tell it when to fire and what to do. It's got a couple of command hooks. So things like on boot go find out if there's a new version of PMOS, because we wanted a good way to like keep our 60 to 70 PM kind of roughly in sync.

Ezra MechaberGrowth product manager, Figma · Practitioner, Figma

Context. Mechaber is answering the host's question about what the PM OS repository contains.

Podcast: The AI chief of staff that this Figma PM uses all day (How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo), How I AI (YouTube), November 2, 2026, at 10:56.

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And so we got a lot of feedback. And then we had a public channel. And so we started getting like all of the engineering managers started using it and asking us if we could like come help them talk about how to do knowledge work for engineering. Our data scientists have one that is like essentially a fork of this. And so we were getting a lot of feedback about what it was good at and what it wasn't good at.

Ezra MechaberGrowth product manager, Figma · Practitioner, Figma

Context. Mechaber is describing who beyond product managers picked up Figma's PM OS.

Podcast: The AI chief of staff that this Figma PM uses all day (How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo), How I AI (YouTube), November 2, 2026, at 13:25.

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I archive roughly 10 channels a day, it's bananas. And so one of the things that we were really focused on was how do you help PMs know where to focus and what to do and like go run down all the things that are important. And so I run this skill, what's up like six times a day, it pulls all of my relevant slacks and projects together. It pulls all of the things that I like, who I owe stuff to, what decisions are outstanding.

Ezra MechaberGrowth product manager, Figma · Practitioner, Figma

Context. Mechaber is demonstrating one of the skills in Figma's PM OS, a shared repository of AI skills for product managers.

Podcast: The AI chief of staff that this Figma PM uses all day (How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo), How I AI (YouTube), November 2, 2026, at 08:13.

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I walked into Figma a couple of years ago and I thought everyone was going to be using AI. It was going to be crazy. I was already feeling behind. … And I walked in feeling really behind and I realized basically no one was using these tools outside of engineering to like get real stuff done.

Ezra MechaberGrowth product manager, Figma · Practitioner, Figma

Context. Mechaber is answering the host's question about why he built Figma's PM OS.

Podcast: The AI chief of staff that this Figma PM uses all day (How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo), How I AI (YouTube), November 2, 2026, at 02:58.

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