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DF Dylan Field On All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

“I used to believe even a few years ago, I said it at our annual user conference Config: I said the ceiling will be raised by AI. You'll be able to do greater things than before. That was wrong. The ceiling has stayed the same. AI is not raising the ceiling. Humans are raising the ceiling, though.”

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg · Money & Markets · October 2026

“I used to believe even a few years ago, I said it at our annual user conference Config: I said the ceiling will be raised by AI. You'll be able to do greater things than before. That was wrong. The ceiling has stayed the same. AI is not raising the ceiling. Humans are raising the ceiling, though.” — Dylan Field, All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg

Jason Calacanis asked Figma's CEO where human creativity fits now that AI can build whole products from a prompt. Field says AI has lowered the floor so anyone can produce work, but that the best work still comes from people. He goes on to argue that "design is the new code."

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All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg Around 25:07 into the episode
Speaker 3

I'm going all in.

Jason Calacanis

…Can you just give me your view on the future of human creativity in this era, this future era that we're waltzing into the singularity we're falling into? Where does human creativity play a role? And where do the gaps still need to be filled for taking human creativity? To the realization moment.

Dylan Field

It's the case, I think, that we're lowering the floor with AI Replacing it so that all of the production, whether it's code or it's motion, video, design, whatever, you name it, if it's digital, you're lowering the floor to make it happen. Everyone can be part of that, and it's more democratized. Ironically, and I used to believe even a few years ago, I said it, our annual user conference config. I said the ceiling will be raised by AI. You'll be able to do greater things before. That was wrong. The ceiling has stayed the same. AI is not raising the ceiling. Humans are raising the ceiling, though. The creatives, the designers out there, when they choose to focus, invest their time, and to be bold and try to do something that no one else has ever done before, that's when we see the ceiling raised. And at that point, it's a question of: do you care about being in the center of the distribution? Do you care about a mean or average result? Is that sufficient for your task? Or do you need something that shows that you care, that you took the time to actually go make this thing? Do you…

Jason Calacanis

That's the human part.

Dylan Field

It's not just the human part. It's also the part that humans are uncomfortable having. I think that folks are scared to say something that's not consensus. It's

Jason Calacanis

so true. I mean, this is what the greatest artists, the greatest business leaders, the greatest politicians have always demonstrated is the willingness to be brave, to say and do the things that no one else would say or do. And that's what changes the world.

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