Prompted with Cam
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I’m Cameron Adams, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva. I’ve always been fascinated by the creative process—how ideas form, how teams make them real, and how technology can expand what we’re capable of.
Right now, AI is rewriting that process in real time. It’s shifting from being just a tool to becoming a genuine partner in how we think, create, and lead. Prompted is my way of exploring that transformation.
Each episode of the podcast—and each edition of this newsletter—dives into the practical, human side of working with AI. I talk with the leaders, builders, and curious minds who are already treating AI as a co-creator, uncovering how it’s changing their work and what it means for the future of creativity.
If you’re excited about the intersection of human imagination and intelligent technology, you’re in the right place. Source
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The hidden tax slowing down every growing company.
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Creative industries have always survived technological change
Cameron here đ I recently had one of my favourite Prompted conversations live in Los Angeles with Debbie Millman: designer, author, educator and host of Design Matters, one of the longest-running podcasts about design. Debbie has felt like an extension of our team at Canva for a couple of years now; sheâs a part of our Designer Advisory Board, a group of professional designers who advise on Canva and Affinity products.
The future belongs to builders, not coders
In this episode, I sat down with Michele Catasta, President and Head of AI at Replit, to talk about one of the biggest shifts happening in software today. For decades, building software meant learning programming languages, frameworks, and years of engineering practice. Today, we’re entering a world where you can simply describe what you want, and AI helps build it alongside you.
The Creative Fitness Problem: Why AI's Best Work Needs Your Last Mile
Welcome to Prompted, a newsletter and podcast about practical, human side of working with AI, and what it means for the future of creativity. Click here to subscribe to receive future editions. You know that moment when the AI’s output looks good enough to make your finger hover over the send button? That’s a trap. AI will easily get you to something that’s good enough. But your job isn’t to make it good enough. AI gets you 50%, 80%, sometimes closer to 90% of the way there.
We gave 5,000 people a week off to learn AI.
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The most interesting person writing about AI
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What if machines could dream?
I recorded this special live episode with Refik Anadol (AI artist, pioneer of “data painting,” and co-founder of Dataland) at Canva Create in Los Angeles. What’s most compelling about Refik isn’t just the scale of his work (we’re talking billions of data points, supercomputers, and installations seen by millions). It’s how he thinks about AI itself. He sees it not as a tool. Not as a replacement. But as a mirror.