S1
E8
56 mins
Feb 9, 2026
He Solved Figma-to-Code. It Went Viral Overnight
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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.
Now he's building @magicpathai (check it out at https://magicpath.ai).
We 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.
Chapters
[00:00] - "This thing seems like it understands"
[02:03] - Designer to engineer pipeline
[02:29] - The urge to create
[05:17] - Before Designer GPT
[08:35] - The moment two plugins combined on their own
[10:40] - "I shipped four apps in 14 days"
[11:52] - Bell Labs reached out about Cloud Engineer
[13:41] - Will everyone build their own software?
[18:41] - Where prototyping fits now
[20:01] - How enterprise teams use Magic Patterns
[24:51] - Vibe coding is fast food. This is slow food.
[27:13] - Figma Connect and the viral reception
[30:49] - What makes a good canvas editor
[35:05] - Live demo: Figma to working code
[39:48] - Extracting design systems automatically
[50:32] - "You're living in the future"
[52:47] - Advice for overwhelmed designers
[55:09] - "If we remove the love people have for their work, we fail"
