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Stephen Haney has been quietly building design tools for years. Now he's betting that the canvas wants to talk to your agents.

Paper just shipped MCP support. I've been playing with it. It's wild.

We talked about why he thinks the future stack is just three tools, why his team canceled Figma four months ago, and what happens when your production site becomes your source of truth for design.

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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Everything changed in nine months
03:57 - Where the puck is going
05:08 - Figma's walled garden problem
06:18 - Agent + Code Review + Canvas
11:42 - Did agents kill collaboration?
15:18 - They canceled Figma 4 months ago
17:27 - What MCP actually means
21:03 - Live demo: production → canvas → code

LINKS:
Paper: https://paper.design
Stephen: https://x.com/stephenhaney

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