Taming the AI chaos
Real talk: AI in design is cool until it starts hallucinating and ignores your brand's actual aesthetic. Figma is lowkey tired of the chaos, so at their first-ever Config event in India, they dropped a suite of new tools to keep AI agents on a leash.
The star of the show is Figma Specs, a new markdown-based editor. Think of it as a cheat sheet for your AI agents. You can use it to document your design language, link up your existing design and code libraries, and embed diagrams. Basically, it’s a single source of truth that your agents can reference to make sure they’re actually following the rules instead of just freestyling.
More power to the pros
Figma is also moving their 'code layers' feature from private beta to public beta. This lets you inject code directly into your designs on the canvas. If you want to iterate on a prototype, you can literally ask the AI agent to rewrite a part of the code for you.
Chief design officer Loredana Crisan pointed out the "why" behind this: there’s a massive gap between the amount of code being written (17x more) and the actual products being shipped (only 1.3x more). The goal here is to make sure all that AI-generated code is actually usable for building, not just for playing around. Plus, they’ve integrated their recent acquisition, Payload (a headless CMS), into Figma Make to help teams manage content and build dynamic sites faster.
Why it matters
AI is currently giving us infinite possibilities, but it’s often non-deterministic—meaning it’s wildly unpredictable. By giving AI specific 'rules of the road' through centralized systems like Specs, Figma is trying to help designers stop the guess-and-check game. For teams trying to ship real software, this is a massive W, as it bridges the frustrating gap between a pretty design mockup and actual functional code. Say less.
