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title: "Sightlines Issue No. 2: What Leaders Need to Know About Building Agents"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/sightlines-issue-no-2-what-leaders-need-to-know-about-building-agents-pzbomla69
source_url: https://www.figma.com/blog/sightlines-issue-no2
type: article
source: "Figma"
published: 2026-08-20T20:22:40.858Z
updated: 2026-08-20T20:24:41.168Z
tags: ["ai-agents", "leadership", "figma"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
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# Sightlines Issue No. 2: What Leaders Need to Know About Building Agents

**[Figma](https://daily.dev/sources/figma)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A newsletter roundup from Figma's Leadership Collective and Config events shares insights from design and product leaders at Accor, Expedia, Atlassian, and Figma on building agentic products. Key themes include making trust a top priority through transparency, avoiding perfectionism before shipping, and establishing early governance checkpoints for when agents should defer to humans, especially for sensitive workflows.

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