The AI Weekly Brief: Practical AI Tips and Predictions from Business Leaders
Aug 25, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
The AI Weekly Brief invites business leaders to share practical AI tips and their 1/5/10 year predictions for how AI will impact their industry. In this episode we go over: 1. Intro on Sammy 2…
Samantha SteeleGuestAntoineHost
Okay, to get into that, let me kinda walk you through how engineering has changed over the last eighteen months because I see non-engineers are somewhere usually between three to, to eighteen months behind engineers, but they're following the exact same AI adoption curve that engineering has gone through.
And I was someone who s-ni-eight, nine months ago, before I started doing AI DevX, I was a bit of an AI skeptic still.
I wasn't sold that it was that thing that was gonna transform the world in the way the internet or dot-com did.
Uh, and I think for most engineers, the aha moment was Opus 4.6, which is a model that Anthropic released in roughly November, December of last year, and it was the first time that AI worked it for coding.
It was like, whoa, this can do things I could never do as a human better than I can.
And so that was really an inflection point for AI adoption across our industry, and that was when I started using it.
And so Figma at the time was starting to invest in what are called dev boxes.
There's a company called Co- Coder which allows people to host, think a version of your laptop, but it runs in a cloud.
It only has access to the things you want it to have access to, which means, you know, all those stories of AI accidentally sent my CEO an email from my email, like none of that is possible when it's in a dev box in the cloud.
And so I was pulled in to drive adoption of these coder dev boxes because we were really falling behind the rest of the industry.
So dev boxes are, have a sandbox, which is a sandbox is a thing, if you're not super technical, that allows you to...
Okay, to get into that, let me kinda walk you through how engineering has changed over the last eighteen months because I see non-engineers are somewhere usually between three to, to eighteen months behind engineers, but they're following the exact same AI adoption curve that engineering has gone through.
And I was someone who s-ni-eight, nine months ago, before I started doing AI DevX, I was a bit of an AI skeptic still.
I wasn't sold that it was that thing that was gonna transform the world in the way the internet or dot-com did.
Uh, and I think for most engineers, the aha moment was Opus 4.6, which is a model that Anthropic released in roughly November, December of last year, and it was the first time that AI worked it for coding.
It was like, whoa, this can do things I could never do as a human better than I can.
And so that was really an inflection point for AI adoption across our industry, and that was when I started using it.
And so Figma at the time was starting to invest in what are called dev boxes.
There's a company called Co- Coder which allows people to host, think a version of your laptop, but it runs in a cloud.
It only has access to the things you want it to have access to, which means, you know, all those stories of AI accidentally sent my CEO an email from my email, like none of that is possible when it's in a dev box in the cloud.
And so I was pulled in to drive adoption of these coder dev boxes because we were really falling behind the rest of the industry.
So dev boxes are, have a sandbox, which is a sandbox is a thing, if you're not super technical, that allows you to...
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