I'm not even arguing that you should replace the Figma person with AI. I am arguing that even without AI, having Figma persons is a bottleneck. It is much faster to just use some kind of component library, like shadcn, and let the developer figure it out. And with AI that would be even faster, as the developer wouldn't have to write any code, just check the AI output and prompt to make changes if needed. Unless of course you need one of those really fancy landing pages, but even then, you would likely need a specialized developer, and not a Figma person.
If you work in B2B SaaS, sure, I guess. That's a lot of HN by virtue of being a lot of SF VC, but only a tiny part of all tech. Elsewhere shadcn isn't a realistic option.
..literally everything that isn't a recent, up and coming B2B SaaS. So >90% of the software written today.
To give but one example, effectively all of the >$300B mobile app market. Or all enterprise software that can't run on Electron. Or any company that cares about image/branding across their products, which is every single company past a certain size (and don't come at me with "but hot AI startup uses Shadcn and are valued at X trillion").
I will come at you at say that >90% of software written today is garbage, and >90% of companies are run by incompetent people. My hypothesis is that is the reason why we "need" Figma persons and project managers.
