LinkedIn's approach to picking AI design tooling: rather than evaluating vendors (Figma, Subframe, Magic Patterns) and settling on one, it runs several in parallel because different teams gravitate to different tools for their own workflows. Tomer Cohen: 'I don't think there's going to be a winner takes all.'
This is a vendor-selection stance distinct from the decision to build custom in-house agents (see Narrow, Single-Purpose Internal Agent Suite (LinkedIn), Off-the-Shelf AI Tools Need a Custom Integration Layer) — it's about how to run procurement for narrow, single-purpose external tools where a best-of-breed market hasn't consolidated: pilot multiple, expect convergence to a small set over time rather than a single winner, and let usage patterns reveal fit rather than picking upfront.