# Inside Warp’s coding by prompt mandate (and how the CEO follows it too)

[The Art of Evals: How Figma Put People at the Center of Its AI Product](https://review.firstround.com/figma-ai-eval-process/ "The Art of Evals: How Figma Put People at the Center of Its AI Product")  
Building, testing and validating with human craft and creativity.

May 28, 2025

[Replit’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The $1 Billion Side Project](https://review.firstround.com/replits-path-to-product-market-fit/ "Replit’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The $1 Billion Side Project")  
Sometimes the signals of product-market fit are so strong, they can no longer be ignored. In the latest installment of our Paths to Product-Market Fit...

October 08, 2024

[Applied Intuition’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The $15B Founder’s Formula for a Winning Company](https://review.firstround.com/applied-intuitions-path-to-product-market-fit/ "Applied Intuition’s Path to Product-Market Fit — The $15B Founder’s Formula for a Winning Company")  
Co-founder and CEO Qasar Younis lays out the personal and business moves he's made to build a company only he could start.

January 28, 2026

[So You Want to Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer: How to Know If You Need One and How to Get the Role Right](https://review.firstround.com/so-you-want-to-hire-a-forward-deployed-engineer/ "So You Want to Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer: How to Know If You Need One and How to Get the Role Right")  
Founders and operators who’ve successfully built forward deployed engineering teams share the nuances that make this idiosyncratic role work, along...

February 24, 2026

[Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss](https://review.firstround.com/radical-candor-the-surprising-secret-to-being-a-good-boss/ "Radical Candor — The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss")  
Kim Scott cut her teeth as a manager at Apple and Google, and now helps create great leaders as an author and coach for companies like Twitter. Here's...

November 24, 2015

[How to Become Insanely Well-Connected](https://review.firstround.com/how-to-become-insanely-well-connected/ "How to Become Insanely Well-Connected")  
Chris Fralic is a world-class super-connector. Here's how the long-time First Round Partner has methodically built bonds spanning years and careers.

April 25, 2017

[Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework](https://review.firstround.com/build-products-that-solve-real-problems-with-this-lightweight-jtbd-framework/ "Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework")  
Drawing on her experiences building products at Lumosity, Oculus, and Facebook's New Product Experimentation group, Sunita Mohanty shares a...

January 14, 2021

[Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company](https://review.firstround.com/firsthand-applied-intuition/ "Firsthand: Seven Years Inside Applied Intuition, the Quietly Dominant Physical AI Company")  
I joined Applied Intuition as a new-grad engineer back in early 2019, when it was just a handful of us working above a bar on Murphy Ave in Sunnyvale...

June 03, 2026