About this episode

Simen Svale discusses the role of AI in content management and design using Sanity.

Show DescriptionWhat is Sanity and who is it for in the age of AI, managing content with AI, how Simen Svale uses AI agents alongside Sanity, designing a MCP, design with Pencil vs Figma, how Inngest works, and how Simen keeps AI agents busy all day. Listen on WebsiteWatch on YouTubeGuestsSimen SvaleGuest's Main URL • Guest's SocialCo-founder/CTO at Sanity.io Links The Content Operating System for the AI era | Sanity Coding Agents & Complexity Budgets | Lee Robinson Message from Sanity Pencil – Design on canvas. Land in code. AI and backend workflows, orchestrated at any scale SponsorsSanity.ioThe back-end built for AI content operations. Power web, mobile, and agentic applications at scale.

People in this episode

Hosts: Chris Coyier, Dave Rupert

Guest: Simen Svale

Topics covered

• AI content management
• design tools
• AI agents
• content operations
• backend workflows

Keywords

• AI
• content management
• Sanity
• design
• Pencil
• Figma
• Inngest
• AI agents

Sponsors

Sanity.io

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Sanity, Sanity.io, Inngest

Products: Pencil, Figma

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