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Figma's Orchestration Bet: Why MCP Network Effects Redefine Software Defensibility
Wall Street repriced SaaS stocks after Anthropic launched Claude Code Security, with Figma dropping 70% from its peak amid the $285 billion "SaaSpocalypse." Figma recently partnered with Anthropic to launch "Code to Canvas," allowing developers to push rendered interfaces directly into Figma's design canvas as editable objects via the MCP protocol. This positions Figma not as a traditional SaaS tool but as a dense orchestration node in AI workflows, where defensibility comes from routing density rather than feature velocity.
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