How Figma and Anthropic are accelerating product teams | Now Shipping

In this week's episode of Now Shipping, Mike Belsito covers three stories product builders need on their radar. This week, we discuss:

Why Figma putting executable code on the design canvas is as much a survival move as a workflow improvement — and what it means when your design tool becomes an agent platform with its own skills, memory, and external integrations
What Claude Sonnet 5's near-flagship performance at less than half the price of Opus 4.8 means for the agentic features product teams have been shelving on cost grounds — and why adaptive thinking on by default changes the equation further
How the EU AI Act's 16-month extension to December 2027 and Connecticut's CART Act create two overlapping compliance timelines — and why neither offers as much breathing room as it appears to

Referenced:
Figma: https://figma.com
Anthropic: https://www.anthropic.com
EU AI Act: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory-framework-ai