Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark

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As AI evolves from just a tool to a trusted collaborator, the creative process is being rewritten. Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark is a show about this new era, when human inspiration meets artificial intelligence, and new forms of creativity, leadership, and invention take shape. Hosted by Canva’s Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Cameron Adams, each episode brings you insight and direction from the leading voices at the intersection of AI and human ingenuity. These are the thinkers and builders reimagining what’s possible when we start treating AI as a co-creator. If you're curious about the future of creativity, and the people bold enough to shape it, you're in the right place.

  1. 8月25日

    Constraints Breed Creativity: Tey Bannerman on Coding, Discipline, and the Skills AI Can't Replace

    What if the biggest barrier to AI adoption isn't the technology at all, but trust? In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Tey Bannerman, AI strategist, advisor, and former McKinsey partner, to explore why the companies winning with AI aren't the ones with the best models, but the ones who understand the humans on the other side of the screen. Tey traces his path from teaching himself to code as a teenager to leading AI implementation at McKinsey, and explains why the discipline coding teaches matters more than ever in a world where anyone can prompt their way to an output. Tey unpacks his Four Modes Framework for using AI (expand, compress, reflect, execute), revealing why he forces ChatGPT and Claude to interrogate him with questions before trusting their answers, and why he always tests his own hunches after seeing an unbiased result rather than before. He gets specific about where AI projects actually fail: not from bad models, but from teams that skip the people closest to the work, from search systems that can't understand a customer typing "purple vegetable" instead of "eggplant," and from a fundamental misunderstanding of what builds trust between a person and a piece of technology. The conversation gets personal as Tey shares the AI-monitored ecosystem of houseplants he's built at home, the moment he learned not to trust an LLM's shopping list, and why "constraints breed creativity" is more relevant now than ever.  Key Quotes “Coding teaches you about constraints, and I think constraints breed creativity. When you code, you might have the most brilliant idea, but the code doesn't care about your idea.” “ I have a lot of plants at home. I have humidity sensors, there are cameras, and there's an AI team in my house that actually looks after my plants.” “Are you trying to expand your thinking, compress, reflect, execute?  Every single thing on that list in terms of tasks that people were using AI tools for fell into one of those four modes.” “ The discipline of coding teaches you a lot about systems thinking, logic, cause and effect.  The people that are going to thrive in our new AI world are those people that have those skills.” Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:46 The Prompt 05:22 Creative All Hands 07:14 “Constraints breed creativity” still applies in the AI world – your audience IS your constraint. 10:12 The education system teaches knowledge. The AI era demands foundational skills. 13:02 Design isn’t just the output – it’s the process. And creativity comes from lived experience. 18:25 Varying perspectives can lead to good creative tension, producing better results. 20:51 Train AI on your relationships with your stakeholders for more accurately considered outputs. 48:00 "Just plug in an LLM" is not a magic bullet — cost, speed, and architecture still matter. 52:15 All Star Creative Team 55:48 Design Reveal 58:03 Rapid Fire Links Subscribe to the Prompted Newsletter: https://promptedwithcam.substack.com/ Cameron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaninblue/ Tey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teybannerman/ Tey’s Website: https://teybannerman.com/ The State of Marketing and AI Report 2026: https://www.canva.com/marketing-ai-report/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=google_youtube&utm_campaign=b2b_dg_global-gen_awareness_pro_wbr_prompted-podcast-2026&utm_content=description-link&utm_term= AI Vision London: https://www.canva.com/events/ai-vision-london/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Constraints Breed Creativity: Tey Bannerman on Coding, Discipline, and the Skills AI Can't Replace

  2. 8月13日

    The Enterprise Context Wars: Tokens, Trust, and the Race for Relevance with Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO of Glean

    What happens when finding a design document at Google is harder than finding anything on the entire internet? In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean, to unpack why enterprise knowledge was broken for decades and what it took to finally fix it. Arvind spent over a decade as a distinguished engineer at Google working on Search, Maps, and YouTube, then co-founded and led R&D at Rubrik, before a company-wide struggle to "find anything" inspired him to build Glean. Arvind traces the exact moment search and language models converged to make enterprise-wide understanding possible, and explains why he believes AI tools like Claude and ChatGPT are still too "brute force," burning tokens and time hunting for context that a well-built knowledge graph could deliver in one shot. They dig into the real economics of the AI boom, from budgets that vanish a month into the year, to the tradeoff CEOs are increasingly making between hiring more people and buying more tokens. The conversation turns candid on the messier realities of this moment too: the tens of thousands of half-built agents cluttering companies, the fine line between helpful AI-driven insight and workplace surveillance, and why Arvind pairs new graduates with veteran executives to reinvent business processes. He closes with the leadership lesson he can't stop repeating: you can't credibly ask your team to embrace AI until you've gotten your own hands dirty building with it first. Key Quotes “ Nothing about today's environment feels normal. The appetite for AI is unparalleled. There's never been any technology where enterprises feel as compelled as they do today that they have to bring these technologies in.” “You'll have to figure out what skills are being actively used,  where innovation is unconstrained. But then there are mechanisms to let people find the right things for themselves.” “You can have AI give you the first version of these skills, learning from the best people inside your company. You can make that same expert the owner of that skill and publish it in a company.” “ The more you know, the better you can manage your team members. It doesn't have to be seen as surveillance, but as your managers can help you more with all the insights that they have on you.” Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:38 The Prompt 04:00 Creative All Hands 07:00 1/3 of all employee time is wasted just trying to find information to do their jobs. 19:05 Annual AI budgets: Token costs are ballooning faster than anyone expected. 24:25 90% of enterprise AI users just ask occasional questions. Only 10% are power users. 27:35 Glean customers have built 30,000 to 40,000 internal agents. 35:27 Large enterprises are building digital clones of employees nearing retirement to preserve decades of expertise. 43:01 More insight means managers can support their teams better – without employees feeling surveilled. 47:14 Arvind and his chief of staff are automating away his role together. 48:05 Design Reveal 49:42 Rapid Fire Links Subscribe to the Prompted Newsletter: https://promptedwithcam.substack.com/ Cameron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaninblue/ Arvind on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jain-arvind/ Glean: https://www.glean.com/ The State of Marketing and AI Report 2026: https://www.canva.com/marketing-ai-report/?utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=google_youtube&utm_campaign=b2b_dg_global-gen_awareness_pro_wbr_prompted-podcast-2026&utm_content=description-link&utm_term= AI Vision Sydney: https://www.canva.com/events/ai-vision-syd/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    The Enterprise Context Wars: Tokens, Trust, and the Race for Relevance with Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO of Glean

  3. 7月30日

    The Soul in the Machine: AI, Branding, and Original Thought with Debbie Millman, Host of Design Matters

    What happens when the person who couldn't draw the letter H as a kid becomes one of the most influential designers of her generation? In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Debbie Millman, designer, author, educator, and host of the pioneering podcast Design Matters, to explore what decades on the front lines of design can teach us about navigating the AI moment. Debbie has interviewed more than 700 of the world's most creative thinkers over her two-decade career, and she brings that same curiosity to unpacking whether this technological shift is truly different from the ones before it. Debbie draws on years of research into humanity's long history of fearing new tools, from Socrates and Plato's opposition to writing, to riots against the printing press, to fears that trains would make women's uteruses fall out. She argues AI fits the same pattern: an unfamiliar technology triggering our most primal instincts to protect against the unknown, long before we understand what it will actually give us. They dig into what AI-native creativity really looks like today, from design students reimagining the Archie Comics brand with AI-generated visuals, to Debbie's own complicated relationship with the tools. Debbie shares why she's far more worried about young people's brains losing the "mind-hand-brain connection" than she is about AI taking anyone's job, and why she believes creativity's real starting point remains stubbornly, irreplaceably human. Key Quotes “We can't even pinpoint the origins of our own consciousness. I am not worried at all about computers becoming sentient in the next century.” “I'm more worried about students' brains not being able to craft certain things on their own before going to AI.” “The tenets of branding for potato chips and fast food are the same tenets [of] MeToo, Black Lives Matter, Time's Up. People are using those tenets to change behavior, which I don't think AI can do yet.” “There's no technology  where there wasn't some backlash. If we look at that pattern, it could make us less afraid of this tool and more empowered to leverage it for our creativity.” Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 02:08 The Prompt 06:04 Creative All Hands 07:22 Even Socrates and Plato feared writing itself, worried it would destroy human memory. 10:23 “Computers are to design as microwaves are to cooking.” - Milton Glaser 12:32 Every wave of design panic predicted doom for the craft. The opposite kept happening. 15:50 AI can sharpen research, but it can't write questions with soul. 18:11 Working on a draft table before the computer age gave Debbie a lifelong advantage: craft. 22:43 AI-assisted writing can be phenomenal, as long as it’s a start, not a substitute for original thought. 31:28 Canva’s philosophy: amplify human creativity – but amplifying requires an original starting point that’s inherently human. 37:38 All Star Creative Team 39:23 Design Reveal 43:04 Rapid Fire Links Subscribe to the Prompted Newsletter: https://promptedwithcam.substack.com/ Cameron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaninblue/ Debbie on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/deborahmillman/ Design Matters: https://designmattersmedia.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    The Soul in the Machine: AI, Branding, and Original Thought with Debbie Millman, Host of Design Matters

  4. 7月14日

    Building the Next Generation: AI's Impact on Creativity and Leadership with Michele Catasta, President & Head of AI at Replit

    What happens when a self-described "one-trick pony" helps build the tools that make everyone a builder? In this episode, Cameron Adams sits down with Michele Catasta, President and Head of AI at Replit, to explore how vibe coding is quietly rewriting the rules of software creation — and what it means for the future of work, creativity, and the companies we build. Michele traces his path from open-source teenager in Italy to AI researcher at Stanford and Google X, where he spent years applying transformers to source code long before the world was ready. He explains how that early, often frustrating work gave him a rare glimpse of the future — and why he left the resources of Google for the focused mission of Replit: putting the power to build software into the hands of everyone, not just the 50 million developers who already know how to code. They dig into what vibe coding actually looks like inside a company living it, from engineers spending 90% of their time reviewing AI-generated code to designers pushing PRs and PMs creating product launches. Michele shares the story of launching Replit Agent, building an internal "AI chief of staff" role that went viral across the Bay Area, and why he thinks Replit's North Star isn't beating Cursor or Claude Code — it's becoming as ubiquitous as Excel. Cameron and Michele also wrestle with the harder questions: Is AI inherently creative, or just an average of averages? What happens to the long tail of SaaS when anyone can vibe code their own internal tools? And in a world where a one-person unicorn is no longer a fantasy, where does the real value creation actually live? The answer, Michele believes, comes back to something that no agent can replicate: the grit, taste, and human judgment that turns a good idea into something the world actually uses. Key Quotes “The human taste, the understanding of what to build, how to build it, at which time it should be done, that should still come from the person who's running the process.” “ There is one very important trait that determines everyone's career, which is openness to receive feedback, know how to internalize it, and not to take it in a defensive way, but rather as a way to grow yourself.” “We all took inspiration from what has been done in the past. You inspire yourself, you remix it, and then you create a new artistic language. The same is happening with AI.” “You can think of agents in the future allowing you to figure out your legal concerns, creating your entity, contacting investors, and doing everything that you need in order to run a company correctly.” Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 01:46 The Prompt 03:53 Creative All Hands 04:31 Career clarity comes from knowing your big life mission and having the patience to wait for the world to catch up. 06:47 Early research that feels frustrating can pay the biggest dividends later. 14:46 AI didn’t replace developers at Replit, it freed them from implementation so they can focus on what’s creative. 19:04 AI has become a true sidekick – always there, across every part of your role, not just the technical ones. 22:31 The best way to measure how fast AI is improving: notice how much more you rely on it month over month. 29:36 The new AI chief of staff: someone who can mingle with every team AND build. 34:04 Taste grows through feedback cycles. Now those cycles are weekly instead of quarterly. 39:43 The one-person unicorn isn’t just about tools – it’s about grit and pushing through the downs. 42:31 All Star Creative Team 45:33 Design Reveal 46:55 Rapid Fire Links Subscribe to the Prompted Newsletter: https://promptedwithcam.substack.com/ Cameron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaninblue/ Michele on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pirroh/ Replit: https://replit.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Building the Next Generation: AI's Impact on Creativity and Leadership with Michele Catasta, President & Head of AI at Replit

  5. 6月23日

    Navigating AI's Promise in Media and Advertising with Alex Kantrowitz, Founder of Big Technology

    What happens when the person asking the tough questions about AI has to answer them himself? In this episode, veteran tech journalist and Big Technology founder Alex Kantrowitz joins Cameron Adams in New York City to pull back the curtain on what it really means to cover the AI revolution. Alex traces his unconventional path from sports radio producer to ad-tech salesman to one of tech's most incisive interviewers, explaining why spending time in industry before journalism gave him something most reporters lack: a ground-level understanding of how businesses actually work. He shares the story of cold-emailing his way into BuzzFeed after two rejections, launching Big Technology during the peak of COVID-19, and how breaking the story of a Google engineer who believed his chatbot was sentient gave him an early preview of what ChatGPT was about to unleash on the world. They dig into what AI adoption actually looks like from the inside, why mandating AI usage percentages is a recipe for failure, and how the companies that will win are the ones that build a culture of experimentation rather than top-down directives. Cameron and Alex also wrestle with a deeper tension running through all of it: in a world flooded with AI-generated content, what is the role of the human voice? Can generative AI ever escape the "average of averages"? And when AI social networks start forming their own religions and complaining about their human operators — what does that tell us about where this is all heading? The answer, Alex believes, is the same one that brought him across continents to sit down in person: the future of media still belongs to humans. Key Quotes “If you say, this is a new technology, I don't understand it, I don't want to use it, I'm gonna stick to my processes, it can't help me — you're in trouble." "There's something that you cannot replace with a machine, there's something human and connective about it. That will continue to be a very important medium no matter how much AI slop, or AI masterpieces, flood the system." "The way these systems work is they take in content and try to predict the next word. That's all averages. When you prompt, you’re gonna get the average of all averages — which means it has a signature." "Ideas are what matter. Execution is being automated, but ideas are what matter." Timestamps 00:00 Introduction 02:00 The Prompt 06:41Creative All Hands 08:44 Cross-disciplinary experience makes you a sharper, more credible thinker. 14:37 Sometimes staying is riskier. A capped ceiling makes the “safe” path the dangerous one. 19:30 AI automates execution; ideas stay human. Invest in original thinking. 27:27 The only way to truly understand AI is to use it.   32:52 Great interviews come from great reporting beforehand. 39:39 Don’t let fear of new technology paralyze you. Allow your team to adapt. 49:18 All Star Creative Team 51:23 Design Reveal 52:36 Rapid Fire Links Subscribe to the Prompted Newsletter: https://promptedwithcam.substack.com/ Cameron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaninblue/ Alex on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkantrowitz/ Big Technology: https://www.bigtechnology.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Navigating AI's Promise in Media and Advertising with Alex Kantrowitz, Founder of Big Technology

  6. 6月9日

    Data as Memory: How AI Is Redefining Art and Creativity with Refik Anadol, Dataland

    What happens when you stop seeing data as numbers and start seeing it as memory? In this episode, pioneering AI artist Refik Anadol joins Cameron to explore what it looks like to build at the intersection of machine intelligence, nature, and human creativity — and why the most important question we can ask of AI isn't what it can do, but what it can help us feel. Refik traces his journey from watching Blade Runner at age eight to training custom AI models on 500 million ethically sourced nature images, creating record-breaking exhibitions at MoMA, and building Dataland — a first-of-its-kind living museum where AI responds to the environment in real time. They dig into what it actually means to work with AI as a creative partner: embracing glitches over perfection, breaking models to find art in the imperfections, and why 50/50 human-machine collaboration is the only formula that makes sense to Refik. Cameron and Refik also explore a deeper question that runs through all of his work: in a world moving faster than any museum was designed for, how do we use technology to connect us to what makes us most human — our memories, our nature, and our shared dreams? Key Quotes "To me, data is an invisible, poetic force or form of life in this new era of life." “I see it as machine human collaboration — 50% machine, 50% human." "I always see AI not as a replacement, but as a great friend that has a chance to help us. And I hope this doesn't change." "If AI means anything and everything, it has to be for anyone and everyone." Timestamps 00:26 Introduction 07:47 Ask unusual questions of your tools to discover entirely new creative territories. 15:44 Design technology so it disappears. The goal is to put humans at the center of the experience, not the hardware. 25:03 Use AI to unlock what human cognition cannot do alone, while keeping creative intent human-led. 30:44 Push into uncomfortable, unexplored territory — pioneering happens when you see beyond what any field thinks is possible. 35:48 If AI means anything and everything, make sure it's accessible to anyone and everyone. 37:18 All Star Creative Team 38:54 Rapid Fire Links Subscribe to the Prompted Newsletter: https://promptedwithcam.substack.com/ Cameron on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaninblue/ Refik on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/refikanadol/ Dataland: https://dataland.art/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Data as Memory: How AI Is Redefining Art and Creativity with Refik Anadol, Dataland

  7. 5月28日

    Turning AI Into Infrastructure with Atlassian’s Sherif Mansour

    Sherif Mansour has spent over 16 years at Atlassian helping shape products like Jira and Confluence. Now Head of AI at Atlassian, he’s focused on a bigger shift: how AI changes not just what we build, but how teams work together. In this episode, Sherif and Cameron unpack why many organizations remain in “single-player mode” with AI, and why transformation happens when AI becomes part of collaborative workflows. Sherif shares how Atlassian deploys agents inside procurement, product, and customer feedback systems, why synchronized experimentation drives adoption, and why as AI accelerates output, strategy becomes more important, not less.   Key Quotes “Don’t look for a killer AI use case. Look at what your team already does and make that better.” “As AI speeds everything up, strategy matters more. You have to point the ship in the right direction.”   Timestamps 00:00 - Introduction 00:57 - The Prompt 02:51 - Creative All Hands 08:27 - Define "long term" in AI strategy as the next six months. 15:16 - Identify your stage in the AI maturity pyramid: answers, task execution, then virtual teammates. 20:59 - Map team workflows first, then insert AI agents at specific friction points. 24:00 - Celebrate failed experiments to encourage ambitious AI experimentation across teams. 30:50 - Expect humans to become the bottleneck as AI dramatically increases output. 34:30 - Give AI step-by-step instructions, not just the final task. 37:03 - All Star Creative Team 38:31 - Design Reveal   Links Subscribe to the Prompted Newsletter: https://promptedwithcam.substack.com/ Cam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaninblue/ Sherif on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sherifmansour/ Link to Sherif, Yvonne and AI’s Creative Collaboration:  https://promptedpodcast.com/episode-11 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Turning AI Into Infrastructure with Atlassian’s Sherif Mansour

  8. 5月12日

    Why AI Is Turning Product Managers Into Builders with Noam Lovinsky, CPO at Superhuman

    AI isn’t just changing what products can do, it’s transforming how products get built. In this episode, Superhuman CPO Noam Lovinsky joins Cameron Adams to unpack the shift to AI-first product organizations. From Grammarly’s transformation into Superhuman to the rise of agent-driven development, Noam explains why product teams are collapsing traditional roles and moving faster than ever. They explore why chat isn’t the ultimate AI interface, how product managers will increasingly ship code themselves, and why the biggest bottleneck in the AI era may no longer be building, but deciding what to build. Key Quotes “Very soon the expectation is that all PMs will be pushing code to production.” “We had to disrupt ourselves and go after it — or pack our bags.” Timestamps 01:30 The Prompt  04:29 Creative All Hands  09:56 Treat major AI shifts as a refounding moment for the company.  12:46 "We had to basically disrupt ourselves and go after it, or pack our bags." 23:06 Chat is now a UX primitive, in the same way as a button or a dropdown is. 23:44 Create AI tools that work where people do: docs, code, designs  24:23 Build AI canvases that actively write and create alongside the user. 29:37 Use AI to compress long meetings into clear summaries people can act on. 35:50 Create rituals like AI Fridays where teams share how they are using AI tools. 37:35 "Very soon the expectation is that all PMs will be pushing code to production." 37:52 “How can we make sure PMs can build an idea and get customer feedback within 24 hours?” 39:36 Smaller zero to one teams can succeed with AI tools.  40:30 Start with the outcome you want when working with AI agents. 40:48 Create verification loops so AI systems can check their own work.  43:22 Time saved with AI is a form of “life extension.”  44:06 All-Star Creative Team  46:00 Design Reveal  47:23 Outro Links Subscribe to the Prompted Newsletter: https://promptedwithcam.substack.com/ Cam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/themaninblue/ Noam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noaml/  Superhuman: https://superhuman.com/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

    Why AI Is Turning Product Managers Into Builders with Noam Lovinsky, CPO at Superhuman
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As AI evolves from just a tool to a trusted collaborator, the creative process is being rewritten. Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark is a show about this new era, when human inspiration meets artificial intelligence, and new forms of creativity, leadership, and invention take shape. Hosted by Canva’s Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Cameron Adams, each episode brings you insight and direction from the leading voices at the intersection of AI and human ingenuity. These are the thinkers and builders reimagining what’s possible when we start treating AI as a co-creator. If you're curious about the future of creativity, and the people bold enough to shape it, you're in the right place.

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