How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage) — Eyal Blum, Figma
Figma's engineering org follows a three-act AI adoption curve ending in guardrails mastery
“reduced developer agency causes engineers to lose some of their job satisfaction”
A Figma software engineer describes how their engineering org is navigating uneven AI agent adoption across teams, framing it as a three-act process: early wins, overconfidence leading to quality failures, then learning proper guardrails and prompting discipline. A notable friction point surfaced is that reduced developer agency is eroding job satisfaction as engineers shift from flow-state coding to prompt-and-wait cycles. The talk is practical and grounded but offers pattern recognition rather than novel findings.