A few weeks ago I started a new job at Figma, leading AI Product efforts! At Figma, our mission is to bring ideas to life, and AI presents an opportunity to raise the ceiling of what’s possible and lower the floor of who can use creative tools.
Figma is hiring an AI PM! Come reimagine creativity with AI. Shape the future of how designers work, and help make design more accessible to all.
Plus you’d have the chance to work with an insanely talented team, including
@zoink
@yuhkiyam
@kris_rasmussen
@nlevin
@jsngr
and
Today marks the end of an era of my working at
@coda_hq
. I’m forever grateful to
@shishirmehrotra
,
@lshackleton
, and the whole company, as well as to our community and customers. I’ll always be a Codan at heart and will be rooting for Coda!
A quick trip down memory lane 🧵
I’m so excited about the
@figma
#AI
launches today. Figma AI can help designers be more efficient, by hooking up prototypes, cleaning up layer names, finding the right component, or help you get started.
Love to hear feedback, first impressions, and feature requests :)
Don’t name your layers. Let Figma AI do that AND
→ Make your first draft with Make Design
→ Find the exact visual you’re looking for (or something similar) with Visual/Asset Search
→ Turn your designs into a working prototype with Make Prototype
#Config2024
A year ago I set out to learn everything I could about Search and
#SEO
as a distribution channel and growth lever for
@coda_hq
. Here are my top 10 learnings. Read on👇
P.S. If I could send this to myself a year ago, this would have been my reaction.
Coda
#ai
is out of Beta today and is now included for Doc Makers. Oh, and we’re launching an AI reviewer that can comment on your docs suggesting content, tone, and format changes just like a collaborator. Massive changes rolling out today with Coda 4.0:
Say hello to your new virtual assistant: Coda AI.
✨ Summarize meeting notes & transcripts in a snap.
✨ Quickly prep for customer calls.
✨ Whatever you dream up – it’s stackable with Coda’s other building blocks like tables, controls, text, & formulas.
I’m launching an AI podcast with
@ankrgyl
next week! Bits and Bots will share AI Builder Stories - practical lessons learned from building with AI for PMs, Designers, and Engineers.
We’ve been building an AI work assistant for Coda. Now you can chat with it and ask it questions about your work. I’ve been hooked on Coda AI chat as a brainstorming partner, collaborator, conversational search engine, and summarizer.
Try it out and tell me what you think!
What if you could ask your doc questions? Well, now you can.
Coda AI chat takes context from the page you're on or doc you’re in to give you the insights you need—right inside your doc.
Rolling out to workspaces over the next few weeks!
We’ve been using Braintrust to run evals on Coda AI for months. It’s help us move so much faster AND improve quality. Super excited to see
@ankrgyl
and team build out their vision.
Coda’s launching a developer platform. And an affiliate program. And we redesigned the core of the product to make it more flexible and beautiful. So much sweat and heart have gone into this over the last 2 years. So proud of the team!
Check it out
Big news: we’re pleased to introduce the all-new Coda 3.0 — the doc that brings it all together.
With a brand new editor, an open Packs platform, and hundreds of your most requested updates, Coda 3.0 is ready for your team.
Read more about Coda 3.0:
✨
@coda_hq
#ai
is live for everyone! ✨ Here are some incredible stories from makers of how they're saving time and having more impact with Coda AI: .
These are a few of my favorites 👇
Last week
@coda_hq
shipped an
@OpenAI
Pack so you can use
#gpt3
and
#dalle
directly inside a doc. Today I published a simple template that uses the Pack to brainstorm with you. Just hit the button to have
#ai
generate more ideas. BOOM. MAGIC:
Been hard at work improving Coda AI. I'm particularly excited about our new Unlimited offering. Lmk what you think, and big congrats to the many folks who got this shipped!
We heard you: you want Coda AI to make a bigger impact on your day-to-day work.
Today, we’re launching several updates to Coda AI to improve its flexibility and power (including an unlimited AI option 👀)
Here's what we've been up to 🧵
One of the last things I worked on at
@coda_hq
was what is now called Coda Brain. So impressed with how far it's come, way to go team! Can't wait to use it :)
I am thrilled to announce the launch of Coda’s newest product: Coda Brain!
It’s a turnkey AI platform, powered by Snowflake, that helps teams spend less time hunting for information and more time putting it to work.
I like to call it “your team’s favorite know-it-all.”
This
Tired: Manually entering dates, versions, or numbers into every row.
Wired: Going to a spreadsheet tool to use their autofill.
Inspired: Using Coda’s new autofill with Coda AI assist.
I've had a blast using GPT-3 and DALL-E from
@OpenAI
since they were released, and am so excited to be able to use them directly inside my documents now.
@coda_hq
is a uniquely awesome place to use AI
🤖 NEW PROJECT
I built an
@OpenAI
Pack for
@coda_hq
, so you can leverage AI in your everyday workflow to streamline your work and augment your creative expression. Use GPT-3 & DALL-E in a doc with your data.
Read on for examples and what I'm excited for
Tomorrow’s the big day – we’re livestreaming the announcement of our AI at Work Challenge winners! Join the festivities & and discussion on AI in the workplace with AI experts like
@reidhoffman
.
Reserve your spot:
Had a blast meeting so many
@coda_hq
makers at our San Francisco meetup earlier this week! Also got to show off one of my favorite uses for Coda AI: coming up with recipes for my family.
For all the
@coda_hq
and
@icons_8
fans out there - now you can easily add fun free images to your doc! Check out my new Coda Pack: . Love any feedback or feature requests! What icon will you be adding to your docs?
Excited to share
@coda_hq
✨AI with the world today. Designing for AI has been the biggest new challenge for me since the shift to mobile. A few things I’m excited about:
At
@coda_hq
we have a weekly meeting called Stats 'n' Stories where we share data & customer updates to the whole company.
@DiMentor
@ankurbhatia28
and I published the Coda doc we run the meeting with, as well as some of the history: .
Also, I made a song.
9/ ...questions more precise, and elevated the overall quality of the meeting. Also,
@dkossnick
wrote and performed an original intro, which is probably the best part of this thread:
@productschool
Working at all altitudes. You make the pitch deck for the Product, work with Designers on how it should work and look, debug with Engineers, write SQL with Data Science, edit the blog post with Marketing. Working across everything to make the product work 😍
This is a huge moment for AI. Meta has made their LLAMA2 model commercially available: .
I believe this is the tipping point from a market with a small number of entrenched players to a commodity market for models. This will lead to an awesome price war
Hard to believe I've been at
@coda_hq
five months now! I had a blast helping evolve our planning process.
Huge thanks to planning partners in crime
@lshackleton
and
@shishirmehrotra
, and Erin Dame for feedback on drafts.
Dedicated focus time is so critical when you’re distributed and WFH. That’s why Coda changed our entire meeting schedule to accommodate no-meeting Wednesdays.
Read more:
Deep learning. Large language models. Vast capabilities. ☁️💻💡
From chatbots to code generation, learn how
#GenerativeAI
is redefining
#ML
-powered capabilities—& how you can build & use large language on
#AWS
.
#MachineLearning
#AI
👉
In one click,
@coda_hq
#AI
now summarizes your document. And it’s now so much easier to find action items and insights with AI. Big congrats to
@carlojoerges
@glennw
Richard, Walter and team!
Introducing the
#IVPEnterpriseAI55
List 🚀 A curated selection of top AI companies for operators, showcasing momentum & category leadership. Your go-to resource for navigating the AI landscape.
I started a new job at
@coda_hq
! We’re changing how we work with a new kind of doc. And we’re growing: . Come work with me! Especially come work directly with me on the Data team!
I’m not at all surprised
@coda_hq
has been named one of the best places to work. Incredible people, culture and product. Come help us change how people work!
Honored to be named one of
@Inc
’s Best Workplaces two years running.
Check out our open roles at and see the full list of honorees here:
#IncBestWorkplaces
New Bits and Bots episode is out, where
@_aj
reveals how
@ParchaHQ
uses AI agents. AJ is unbelievably generous with detail and shows
@ankrgyl
and me his literal Claude prompts, practical tips, and the pain and joy of working with AI. Here's my favorite 1 minute! 👇
Everything evolves, even documents. And chickens with arms growing out of them. I had a blast working with
@aweirdfish
, Laura, Shamita,
@erinbdame
, Myles,
@brjklein
, and team on our evolution campaign: . I’ll never forget bribing San Francisco WeWork tech
🎉 We just raised a $100 million round of Series D funding, led by
@OTPPinfo
— and we’re all-in on all-in-one docs.
What exactly does that mean? Glad you asked.
First and foremost, it means making docs even better for makers and their teams.
(1/7)
Braintrust was critical in helping us understand how updating
@coda_hq
AI impacted end users. Awesome to see
@braintrustdata
@ankrgyl
highlighted on Wing’s Enterprise 30 List - well deserved!
Super excited for
@braintrustdata
to be part of the 2024 enterprise tech 30 list by
@Wing_VC
.
We exist to serve our customers -- and feel very grateful to be recognized for the traction we've demonstrated so far by focusing on that.
Excited for what's ahead in 2024, and beyond!
The terrorist attacks against Israel on October 7th were heartbreaking. To see terrorism publicly celebrated on American college campuses is doubly heartbreaking. Inciting violence. Desires for genocide. This is so fucked up.
Before AI, I was blown away by what
@thepunit
, Jonathan, Alicia,
@helenajar
, Patrick,
@erickoleda
, and team came up with for Packs: the ability to write code in a browser and deploy it as a Pack! . Then,
@glennw
and
@carlojoerges
built a marketplace to buy
This is Avi Hobelashvili, an IDF officer killed while battling Hamas. His wife posted this picture along with a message to her husband:
“My love. Thank you for the treasure that you left with me.
I promise you that she will grow up and will know who her father was.
She will
Congrats
@glennw
@carlojoerges
@ohleg
and the team for the epic launch today. Coda now has its own marketplace where you can buy and sell Packs - integrations, and add-ons to Coda. Such an awesome step forward for the Coda ecosystem!
🚨 Big, big news:
Coda's Pack marketplace is officially open for business. This launch opens new opportunities for both doc and Pack makers.
👉 Pack makers: Sell your Packs in our Gallery
👉 Doc makers: Trial & buy any Pack, regardless of plan
The impact:
🧵 (1/7)
@abhishekamit
just released some awesome
@coda_hq
Packs we've been using internally for quite a while. Check out this
@semrush
tool to research keywords to target:
And this similar
@ahrefs
integration:
@ahrefs
and
@semrush
can help you find high traffic low competition niches inside of these topics to start out with. As one small example of this,
@halesjustin
noticed lots of high traffic low competition queries related to date/time questions and made
💌 I made a little mailto utility in
@coda_hq
:
Mailto is a slightly obscure yet super powerful hyperlink format. You can make a link that creates a default pre-written email. I use this all the time on landing pages, in emails, or in blog posts. Enjoy!
Some news: after 5+ years, I’m taking a step back from Latent Space. It’s been an incredible journey and I’m so grateful for it. I’ll be cheering my teammates on from the sidelines. I’m looking forward to taking some time off before jumping into something new.
If you haven’t checked out Coda AI, now’s the time! Customers like
@figma
,
@intercom
,
@hellodigit
,
@TEDTalks
, and
@thumbtack
use Coda AI to have less busy work and more impact. Coda AI is your connected work assistant and provides 3 types of assistance.
Five minutes to midnight last night, at the climax of watching Love Actually (as one does), one of our cats vomited twice and then went diarrhea on our rug. Somehow felt like a fitting end to the year. Happy 2021!
These 10 uses of Coda AI are truly inspiring. Come up with a workout plan effortlessly. Use a next-level applicant tracking system. Create social media assets in seconds. Summarize legal filings. And more. Wow. Wow. Wow.
In case you missed our livestream today, we announced the winners of the Coda AI at Work Challenge, a month-long contest for makers to build and showcase their best examples of Coda AI in the workplace.
It wasn’t easy, but the judges selected the winners. Here they are:
📌 I had a blast working with
@zackaman
@stevewon
, Nigel, and Elaine to get
@coda_hq
's initial Chrome Extension Bookmarker off the ground. I published a simple Gift Tracker I bookmark into - try it out yourself: 🎉
Lesson 1:
The only way to create good content for search engines is to create good content for real people. That means stop worrying about how many times each keyword shows up for a bot and start worrying about your content being boring.
We talk a lot about Rituals of Great Teams at Coda. I worked with thousands of customers on how they use Coda for decision-making meetings and crystallized best practices into the 10x decision-making forum, Catalyst: .
We love Search Console so much we even built a Coda pack to pull data into docs to manipulate and annotate it: .
Great template using this from
@glennw
:
🚀 Big news: today we’re excited to launch Coda 4.0 – the all-in-one platform for businesses, powered by AI.
You might be saying to yourself “Coda releases new features every day, what’s so special about Coda 4.0?”
We’re glad you asked...
I love
@coda_hq
's characters representing dramatic evolution: chickens with arms, lizards with umbrella tails, bears with pouches.
I recently got access to
#dalle2
from
@openai
and couldn’t help but go a little crazy imagining other wild evolutions. 👇
What else might be possible in a world where chickens have arms and pugs fly?
We want you to suggest our next evolved character for a chance to have it become part of our evolution campaign!
Submit any # of ideas in the replies — we'll choose a winner next month.
The company is growing, and the AI team especially! If you are a smart, ambitious person who cares about empowering creators, we have a place for you:
- AI Applied Research Engineer:
- AI Infrastructure Engineer:
- Manager, ML
Bits and Bots is live - a new show for AI builders, where Ankur Goyal and I share practical learnings, interview other AI builders, and explore the latest AI technology. You can find the show on all the podcasting places (and links in the thread).
Been so awesome using AI in Coda to speed up my brainstorming, summarize my meetings, and label customer feedback. Start saving time with these awesome templates!
Like many folks, I spent my end-of-year vacation baking, visiting playgrounds, and...writing up a guidebook on how to ace PM data interviews. Check it out here .
Or watch it in video form: .
Today, I had a first. I was crossing the street when a self driving car slowed to a halt in front of me. Nobody was in the car. The jerry rigged self driving car scared me. What if self driving cars in the future looked less like Mad Max, and more like a cute Volkswagen Beetle?
It is hard to overstate just how easy, powerful, and expressive it will feel to make amazing videos.
If you thought video as a consumption and creation medium was already compelling, buckle in for how much the market is going to continue to explode.
I’ve really enjoyed getting to know folks in the Dev Founders community. It’s an incredibly talented group of ambitious founders sharing their learnings and best practices. Thanks for getting this community started!
1/ We have some news to share! After being in stealth over the past year, we are unveiling Dev Founders, a community for founders building products for
#developers
,
#datascience
,
#ml
,
#creators
of all skill levels. A thread 🧵
Thank you
@ForecastByNPE
for opening up your data stream! I had fun putting together a few visualizations of the community activity: . Teaser: top words in questions below! (Made in
@coda_hq
.)
Having an end of week team ritual where people show off what they’ve done this week is so critical. Creates visibility, accountability, and is fun! At
@coda_hq
’s some folks even show snippets of real customer or partner calls - demos aren’t just for Product Teams!