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Ryo Lu (Cursor): AI Turns Designers to Developers

2025-11-21 · 3 company · 3 thematic
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ryo lu
jennifer
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“Figma already bring that sort of process a lot closer that you can collaborate around one artifact that everybody can give inputs and prototype and bring sort of more of a close to um uh the reality artifacts into into uh these people's ha…”
—jennifer
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