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Hero image from Figma's Code Layers launch post

2026.10.26

Edit a design in Figma, then update the actual code with one click

Figma demonstrated this feature when it launched in open beta on October 15. Bring a Figma frame, GitHub repository, or webpage onto the canvas and it becomes a screen you can interact with. Extract it as design layers, edit it as usual, and apply those changes back to the code with one click. You can push the updated code to a GitHub branch and open a pull request for your team to review. Here are the official demos and examples from people who tried it early.

Figma Code Layers · 2 cases

2026.10.26

Describe the 3D scene you want, and this AI runs the 3D software itself and hands it back animated

Kimi K3.1 Pro · 4 cases

A scene from "SPARE," a dialogue-driven short film 汗青 HQ made with Kling 4.0

2026.10.26

No cameras, no actors. We handed the scenes to AI and got a nearly three-minute short film full of real back-and-forth dialogue

Kling 4.0 · 3 cases

A nearly three-minute dialogue drama made with AI and no actors passed 260,000 views on X

汗青 HQ (@hq4ai), who runs the AI media brand AI.TALK and makes AI films and virtual idols · X, YouTube

Kling 4.0See the reference

Video

Claude opened the app and shot the screens itself. A couple of revisions later, the 90-second demo was on the website

Ben van Sprundel (Ben AI), founder of the AI agency behind the note app Balda · YouTube. The same video promotes the company's own paid course and an ElevenLabs affiliate link

Claude MotionSee the reference

Insights2026.11.10

Four in ten executives expect AI to change their headcounts, with nearly twice as many expecting cuts as growth

More than four in ten of roughly 9,000 executives across seven countries expect AI to increase or decrease their company's headcount over the next three years. Those expectations largely offset each other, leaving an average projected decline of 0.4%, but nearly half of US and UK executives expect a reduction.

An AI finance tool's homepage now walks through its three steps with live animations, plus an eight-question FAQ

Wahaj Siddiqui, who built Hysaab, an AI finance tool for companies in the Gulf · Own product homepage

ai-design-skillsSee the reference

Research & analysis

A product manager with no astronomy training found a planet candidate with AI and won time on a NASA telescope

Pavel Rabtsevich, a product manager in Spain with no astronomy training · X, Reddit (an account that posts about using Claude Code and Codex)

Finding new candidates in public science data with a coding agentSee the reference

An AI newsletter writer handed over one explainer post and got back a 33-second motion graphics promo

Tetumemo (@tetumemo), who runs an AI newsletter · X

motion-promptSee the reference

Video

One 25-minute podcast episode in, one finished cut out, with intro, captions, and b-roll

Anthony Dupont-Cinko, who makes the podcast Talk Nerdy at AI adoption consultancy Tenex · X, Tenex blog

HyperFrames StudioSee the reference

A five-page explainer manga, with the real commands drawn into the panels, shows how its creator built their own AI pet character

ぐふとくく (@gufutokuku999), AI illustration creator · X

manga-forgeSee the reference

Insights2026.11.10

Anthropic’s AI agents worked six times as many hours as its employees, yet meeting time rose

In August 2026, employee-directed AI agents at Anthropic worked six times as many hours as the company’s employees. Yet agents spent around 80% of the time their sessions were open waiting for human input. Employees increasingly created instructions and review criteria for agents, while meeting time rose 16% year over year even among technical individual contributors.

Research & analysis

One overnight pass over 4.35 million Dutch East India Company pages turned up rhinos and eruptions no list had recorded

Jesse Waites, software engineer in Boston · personal blog. Waites's post introducing Antiquity presents this project as a case study and carries a notice for JTPCK, a company that takes on custom AI document analysis work. Waites's relationship to JTPCK has not been disclosed.

Searching old archives with AI agentsSee the reference

Six real screen recordings of a Mac clipboard app went in, and the first cut came back in under 10 minutes

AI磊叔, maker of the Mac clipboard app Echo · X

huashu-motionSee the reference

Admin & support

Handed over just last year's application PDFs, and the AI operated Hancom Office itself to fill in this year's grant application

Manufacturing business owner · YouTube channel Autofrog (runs AI automation courses)

ChatGPT Computer UseSee the reference

A backup tool's error messages now tell you what to check and which option to pass

Nikita Maximilian Grimm, who builds vault-mirror, a backup tool for Bitwarden vaults · GitHub

tstack (Theo)See the reference

Video

He edited one Short by hand as a model, and the AI repeated that edit across the remaining 1,168

Video editor David Shutt · runs a Resolve tutorial channel on YouTube

DaVinci Resolve AI AssistantSee the reference

Insights2026.11.09

After three months with AI, senior lawyers edited better without it than peers who had not received it. Junior lawyers showed no clear difference.

Google and MIT researchers gave an AI patent drafting tool to 90 of 133 U.S. patent lawyers, then asked everyone to complete an editing test without AI three months later. Junior lawyers with less than seven years of experience scored much higher on AI-assisted drafts than peers who did not receive the tool, but only senior lawyers who received it scored higher on the test without AI. The result for juniors remains uncertain because their control group included just seven people.

Feed it an AI trading platform idea, and it opens with the employment contract and financial rules Lorenzo had missed

Lorenzo Capone, head of growth for Southern Europe at Kraken, who ran an AI trading platform idea through it · YouTube (Italian)

roast-roomSee the reference

Video

He only decided what went into each scene, and the AI came back with a launch video that drew 120,000 views

Leo, the 15-year-old developer behind Social SDK

HyperFramesSee the reference

Pick one of four design directions, and the AI rebuilds the whole blog, screenshotting desktop and mobile on its own

Brian Porter, CTO of an automotive data company in Munich · personal blog (July, v1)

Hallmark v2See the reference

Development

Three plain-language requests, and Claude Code got a usage bar above its input box

Three Claude Code users · the same Reddit thread

Claude Code ModsSee the reference

A workout app's coach mascot used to just stand there. The day the skill came out, it went live breathing and cheering

SachaRM7, a developer who built and uses the workout-tracking web app SachaRbone Fit · GitHub

rossark-motion-skillSee the reference

Insights2026.11.09

At 700 companies using AI coding agents, code output rose 30% but completed work did not

Work records from 718 companies and 720,000 people show that coding agents increased code output by 30% compared with using autocomplete AI alone, but resolved issues did not increase significantly. The time to merge a PR rose from 7 to 10.5 days, and PRs receiving change requests nearly doubled.

Development

It reported the failed deploy first, and an hour later sent word on its own that the next one had succeeded

André Prado, a Brazilian developer with an AI course business · sells courses

OpenAI DotsSee the reference

Another AI got a plumbing company owner stuck at client portals. Grok Bot finished the job overnight in about 4 hours

Jon O'Neill, plumbing company owner · X thread

Grok BotSee the reference

Admin & support

Muse messaged several sellers in German and talked the price down, while the human just picked one and paid

Sakthi Kumar, a software engineer in Munich · YouTube (invite code in the description)

Meta MuseSee the reference

Claude Code found two deductions the accountant missed. With past years amended too, about $100,000 is coming back

weird-eye-issue, a Hacker News user living outside the US

Having AI review a tax return together with all its supporting documentsSee the reference

Insights2026.11.09

An AI grader failed three coding agent tasks. The execution logs showed all three had passed.

An AI grader marked three coding agent tasks as failures, but the execution logs showed that all three had passed. Google Cloud's evaluation experience shows why the agent's final summary needs to be read alongside its execution logs and a plan written before execution.

Design

The plain approach swapped out an app screen's icons, while PIX carried over even the icons exactly

Working Reference · home screen design for a coffee-ordering app (mobile)

PIXSee the reference

$1.60 to give a live service a brand-new logo

Jangho Hwang, a Berlin developer who runs several services · X

Ideogram Vector 1.0See the reference

Development

For a card statement analysis app, it first asked whether to keep the originals, then pushed payments back until the value was proven

Silicon Valley Developer, a Korean-language coding instructor · course practice project (YouTube)

grill-meSee the reference

Research & analysis

It started with one line, "I need a paper-search skill," and ended with a stranger's broken skill fixed on the spot and the papers found

Claude Code研究所 (Claude Code Lab), a Japanese account that runs Claude Code training · X

find-skillsSee the reference

Video

The product video they kept putting off took one sentence and 15 minutes

Operator of the online course platform learnfrom.co · Reddit

Claude OpusSee the reference

Insights2026.10.31

People paid more for games an AI made on its own than for games humans made by directing an AI

Games people made by giving an AI three instructions drew an average of $0.37. Games the AI made on its own drew $0.47. Creators expected the AI to lose, then changed their minds after reading its idea, and there was no evidence that labeling who made each game shrank the premium paid for AI games.

Writing & docs

A one-line request moved 97 posts from Brunch to a Naver blog

Marketer with 15 years in the field · runs the Korean newsletter Growth Notes for Go-Getters

AsideSee the reference

Research & analysis

Handed over 500 emails, and in 25 seconds it picked out only the ones that need a reply

Creator Riley Brown · his own inbox

JevSee the reference

An art director generated the shots in Kling 4.0, did the editing and color grading by hand, and released a 69-second hip-hop music video

Domi Vakero, an art director in Seville, Spain, working since 2008 · YouTube

Kling 4.0See the reference

Video

A promo video for a whole month's events: here's what they made with Claude

AI and automation instructor Alexandre Kantjas · LinkedIn. The post promotes events at the 9x Community, which Alexandre runs

Claude MotionSee the reference

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Edit a design in Figma, then update the actual code with one click

Describe the 3D scene you want, and this AI runs the 3D software itself and hands it back animated

No cameras, no actors. We handed the scenes to AI and got a nearly three-minute short film full of real back-and-forth dialogue

A nearly three-minute dialogue drama made with AI and no actors passed 260,000 views on X

Claude opened the app and shot the screens itself. A couple of revisions later, the 90-second demo was on the website

Four in ten executives expect AI to change their headcounts, with nearly twice as many expecting cuts as growth

An AI finance tool's homepage now walks through its three steps with live animations, plus an eight-question FAQ

A product manager with no astronomy training found a planet candidate with AI and won time on a NASA telescope

An AI newsletter writer handed over one explainer post and got back a 33-second motion graphics promo

One 25-minute podcast episode in, one finished cut out, with intro, captions, and b-roll

A five-page explainer manga, with the real commands drawn into the panels, shows how its creator built their own AI pet character

Anthropic’s AI agents worked six times as many hours as its employees, yet meeting time rose

One overnight pass over 4.35 million Dutch East India Company pages turned up rhinos and eruptions no list had recorded

Six real screen recordings of a Mac clipboard app went in, and the first cut came back in under 10 minutes

Handed over just last year's application PDFs, and the AI operated Hancom Office itself to fill in this year's grant application

A backup tool's error messages now tell you what to check and which option to pass

He edited one Short by hand as a model, and the AI repeated that edit across the remaining 1,168

After three months with AI, senior lawyers edited better without it than peers who had not received it. Junior lawyers showed no clear difference.

Feed it an AI trading platform idea, and it opens with the employment contract and financial rules Lorenzo had missed

He only decided what went into each scene, and the AI came back with a launch video that drew 120,000 views

Pick one of four design directions, and the AI rebuilds the whole blog, screenshotting desktop and mobile on its own

Three plain-language requests, and Claude Code got a usage bar above its input box

A workout app's coach mascot used to just stand there. The day the skill came out, it went live breathing and cheering

At 700 companies using AI coding agents, code output rose 30% but completed work did not

It reported the failed deploy first, and an hour later sent word on its own that the next one had succeeded

Another AI got a plumbing company owner stuck at client portals. Grok Bot finished the job overnight in about 4 hours

Muse messaged several sellers in German and talked the price down, while the human just picked one and paid

Claude Code found two deductions the accountant missed. With past years amended too, about $100,000 is coming back

An AI grader failed three coding agent tasks. The execution logs showed all three had passed.

The plain approach swapped out an app screen's icons, while PIX carried over even the icons exactly

$1.60 to give a live service a brand-new logo

For a card statement analysis app, it first asked whether to keep the originals, then pushed payments back until the value was proven

It started with one line, "I need a paper-search skill," and ended with a stranger's broken skill fixed on the spot and the papers found

The product video they kept putting off took one sentence and 15 minutes

People paid more for games an AI made on its own than for games humans made by directing an AI

A one-line request moved 97 posts from Brunch to a Naver blog

Handed over 500 emails, and in 25 seconds it picked out only the ones that need a reply

An art director generated the shots in Kling 4.0, did the editing and color grading by hand, and released a 69-second hip-hop music video

A promo video for a whole month's events: here's what they made with Claude

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