the thinking and context behind your work deserve a home in figma. specs gives you, your team, and your agents a place to make sense of it all, right alongside your designs and code. it’s still early, but i’m super proud of this one. we started incubating it shortly after joining figma, and it’s been a blast :) rolling out in beta to paid plans now!

you'll do your best work in a tool that allows you to be whimsical, too! 🔊🔊🔊 — lol i've lost hours building fun stuff like this with code layers… @figma code layers starting to roll out into open beta TODAY! incredibly excited to see what you'll cook!

Excited to share that today Figma agent is available to everyone! We built it to help teams get into creative flow and stay there, making it faster to get started and raising the ceiling on what's possible. Less time doing the dishes, more time making something special. It's been one heck of a journey getting to this point, navigating a fast-changing landscape of technological possibilities, and an even faster-changing landscape of what we and our customers expect the product to be able to deliver. There's still so much more to do, but I'm proud of the starting point we've made: combining the power of a coding agent with the speed and flexibility of the collaborative canvas. Once you've worked with agents visually, with your teammates, in real time, it's hard to imagine anything else. Building something great has always been a team sport.

New assistants Grok Bot, OpenaAI O, and Manus Cue all have remarkably similar visual identity

Ben Horowitz and Erik Torenberg with Nas, Steve Stoute, and Grandmaster Caz on the Paid in Full Foundation Caz penned rhymes that became Rapper's Delight. Even with his name in them, he got nothing. The Paid in Full foundation honors the people who created hip-hop by making sure they're "paid in full," financially, spiritually, and culturally. As Nas points out, money alone reads as a handout. So the grant comes attached to the honor. Each year at the foundation's Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards, pioneers are celebrated by the artists they inspired. Caz ultimately received a five-year grant, bought a house, and left the projects. In his words: "The thing is the honor. The thing is putting you in the light that you deserve to be in." Ben says he bought Paid in Full (the album) for $10 and got at least $5 million worth of value out of the record, with no way to pay it back. The vision is paying the debt. Felicia Horowitz runs the foundation. She and Ben are matching donations 2.5 to 1, and every dollar goes to the artists. paidinfullfoundation.org 0:00 Intro 1:40 The $10 album that was worth $5M to Ben 3:10 Nas: in hip-hop, you can't just give money 5:05 Why artists thought it was a scam 9:30 Caz wrote Rapper's Delight and got nothing 11:40 Roxanne Shanté: "I wanted the right award" 16:35 Dr. Dre asks to meet Kool Moe Dee and Slick Rick 18:50 Why the industry never did this 26:05 Ben: start with what's right, not what's possible 29:10 Inside the room: Grand Puba, George Clinton 32:15 The Quincy Jones Award 37:00 Scarface and Rakim talk writing for the first time 38:45 Caz: the grant got me out of the projects 43:45 What hip-hop did for Adidas, Hilfiger and Sprite 48:00 How Felicia saved Scarface's life 52:10 Quincy Jones stories, and Nas's jazz legend dad @Nas @SteveStoute @GrandmasterCaz @bhorowitz @eriktorenberg