“It's actually our best engineer, the one that hold all their [context] in their brain. … they know where all the pitfalls are. They are like holding together with with like their mental duct tape all the places that agents are not working well … and they get so much burden and and become bottlenecks”
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From “How to Get Your Org to Adopt Coding Agents (Without Shipping Garbage) — Eyal Blum, Figma”, found 2026-10-15.
Figma found its senior engineers holding unwritten institutional knowledge that agents lack, so they end up catching agent mistakes and adopting AI the slowest. Figma’s response is to put these skeptics in charge of the roadmap for verification and tooling. Quoted from YouTube’s auto-generated captions.