{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"State of Play","title":"Pietro Schirano: He Solved Figma-to-Code. It Went Viral Overnight.","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/e17806e6\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3366,"description":"Pietro Schirano built one of the first AI search engines before Perplexity existed. He created Cloud Engineer, an open source tool with 11,000+ GitHub stars that got him hired at Anthropic. \nNow he's building @magicpathai (check it out at https://magicpath.ai).\n \nWe talked about their Figma Connect feature that went viral last week, why he thinks vibe coding is \"fast food\" (and when you need slow food instead), and there's this moment where he describes two AI plugins combining to do something he never programmed — and how it changed how he thinks about what these models can do.\nGet the UX Tools Newsletter (written by me)\nJoin 100,000+ designers for weekly insights on creative software and the people shaping it: https://uxtools.co\nCHAPTERS:\n00:00 - \"This thing seems like it understands\"\n02:03 - Designer to engineer pipeline\n02:29 - The urge to create\n05:17 - Before Designer GPT\n08:35 - The moment two plugins combined on their own\n10:40 - \"I shipped four apps in 14 days\"\n11:52 - Bell Labs reached out about Cloud Engineer\n13:41 - Will everyone build their own software?\n18:41 - Where prototyping fits now\n20:01 - How enterprise teams use MagicPath\n24:51 - Vibe coding is fast food. This is slow food.\n27:13 - Figma Connect and the viral reception\n30:49 - What makes a good canvas editor\n35:05 - Live demo: Figma to working code\n39:48 - Extracting design systems automatically\n50:32 - \"You're living in the future\"\n52:47 - Advice for overwhelmed designers\n55:09 - \"If we remove the love people have for their work, we fail\"\nABOUT TOMMY GEOCO\nI spent 15+ years in tech and design. Former military. Father of five. Now building Internet Enjoyers, a weird little media + product studio rediscovering soul in creative tech.\nABOUT STATE OF PLAY\nHost Tommy Geoco discovers what fuels the internet's most interesting designers and builders.\nLINKS:\nUX Tools Newsletter: https://uxtools.co\nMagicPath: https://magicpath.ai\nFollow Pietro: https://x.com/skirano\nFOLLOW ME:\nX / Twitter:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Q4goNjMCyLVJblsVd-hc65Y9xpTGIkbjq5L00Huluhg/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kZTM4/NTdjYjhlYmI5NzU0/YjRlNDNkMjFiNDgy/NTRhNi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}