Taron Ghazaryan

Head of Design at Samsara. Tinkerer, gear head, and wannabe YouTuber.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

Engineers are 5x-10x more productive now while PMs are maybe 2-3x more productive? Imagine you had 10x more engineers. 1 PM would not keep up with them.

Is the market reflecting that?

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

STATE OF THE TECH JOB MARKET IN 2026

Twice a year, I dig into trends in hiring and job openings. This is the fifth report I've done, and the most surprising yet:

1. PMs are winning in the AI era
2. Engineering demand has stalled
3. Design openings are at a record low
4. Every role now requires AI skills
5. Tech jobs are concentrating in the Bay Area
6. Remote roles are at a record low
7. The tech job market is growing fast, but mostly outside of software (gasp!)

Full report here: https://t.co/Gly6uqwKxe

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

"keep iterating until you get it right" is the best way to end a prompt. Claude will cook for hours

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@benjkowalski High risk and high judgment decisions will require human approval. An agent can present their findings, but agreed that I don’t think I would trust it to book my Airbnb

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@SullyOmarr having worked in this space before, I can tell you a good amount of orders are just re-orders. Looking at my own DoorDash orders, most of the time I'm ordering the same thing as well.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@tomscottv Agreed with everything except the vibe coded presentations part. It’s been pretty telling how adaptive a designer is based on their presentation format. 9/10 times, figma slides is a tell they’re not technical or ai forward.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

I’ve met about 20 design engineers in the last month and their profiles couldn’t have been any more different.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@iamjaglan it shows lol

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@LukeW Why not capture this feedback as rules for the agent to not make the same mistakes?

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@amylimabean @figma Is it possible to set up design system guidance through markdown files in Figma? The nice thing keeping me in Claude design is the system is much more than just components.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@sandroieva @Samsara_Eng We have one design system with one set of tokens. Agreed that products that have been around for a while will have multiple design systems and we're no exception. Agents only read from the newest system though.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@diegorretamal @Samsara_Eng Yep. Someone = design systems team

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@ChuckHTF @Samsara_Eng For Claude Design prototyping, we're building a skill to keep it synced with code, but I think ultimately this will just point to the repo as well.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@ChuckHTF @Samsara_Eng We're moving away from recreating the design system in Figma as most UI prototyping happens through code now. Designers have access to the monorepo where the Design System also lives. Agents access that.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@JohnAthayde @Samsara_Eng We're still developing this, but Storybook still exists and we define component usage guidelines as .md files alongside the HTML.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@gregoriombp @Samsara_Eng We're now treating Figma as a sketchpad for when it's faster to visualize an idea than to tell an agent what to build.

Pretty much all work gets prototyped outside of Figma.

[Samsara Engineering @Samsara_Eng]

Our design system used to be two things: a Figma library for designers + components in Storybook for engineers, with a lossy translation between them.

It’s now one source of truth that designers, engineers and AI agents all read from. Our head of product design @TaronGh on what changed →

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

We'll probably end up with 3 categories of apps

1. Utilities - camera, maps, music, etc.
2. Entertainment/browsing - Netflix, YouTube, TikTok
3. AI assistants - everything else.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@gaanasrini It is the bottleneck now. Engineers are 10x faster than before.

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@lang Preach. Such a struggle finding the relevant chat and artifact

[Taron Ghazaryan @TaronGh]

@alex_barashkov This is happening organically on my team. The catalyst was investing in Claude design to understand and use our system better.