AsianFin -- Being a generalist has never been more fashionable, according to Figma CEO Dylan Field.

“This was happening before AI, but it’s accelerating with AI,” Field said in a Y Combinator talk published Saturday. “There’s something about AI that empowers generalist behavior.”

He noted that boundaries between stages of product development are dissolving, with product, design, development, and even parts of research increasingly blending into one process.

Figma went public on July 31 in what was billed as the year’s hottest IPO, debuting at a $19.3 billion valuation—roughly the same price Adobe had agreed to pay for it three years earlier. Shares surged more than threefold by the close, valuing the company near $68 billion and ending a three-year drought in major tech listings. To celebrate, Figma hosted a block party outside the New York Stock Exchange.