“Hard Fork” Live Part 2: Dylan Field on Excellence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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We’re back with more from our live event at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. In this episode, we sit down with Dylan Field, founder and CEO of design company Figma, for what he describes as a “roller coaster” of conversation. We cover everything from the company’s “Design Is Dead” campaign to Anthropic CEO Mike Krieger’s sudden resignation from Figma’s board. Then we’ll wrap things up with a special musical performance by the eight wooden robotic dolls that make up the Teenage Engineering Choir.

One quick correction of note: In our interview with Field, he mentions SpaceX’s S-1 filing and misstates what the company says their addressable market for enterprise AI applications is. Field says “$22.9 trillion,” but the correct figure from SpaceX’s records is $22.7 trillion. The decimal point seems small, but it’s a $200 billion difference.

We’ll be back on Friday with our final installment of “Hard Fork” Live.

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“Hard Fork” is hosted by Kevin Roose and Casey Newton and produced by Whitney Jones and Rachel Cohn. This episode was edited by Vjeran Pavic. Engineering by Katie McMurran and original music by Dan Powell, Elisheba Ittoop, Marion Lozano, Diane Wong and Rowan Niemisto. Fact-checking by Willem Peischel.

Special thanks to Paula Szuchman, Pui-Wing Tam, Brooke Minters, and Dahlia Haddad.