Prompted: AI, People and the Creative Spark

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  I Let AI Agents Run My Company - Then They Started Hallucinating: Evan Ratliff on Rise-and-Grind Bots, Fabricated Progress Reports, and the Billion-Dollar Solo-Founder Myth 09.09.2026 59мин

  Evan Ratliff, journalist and host of Shell Game, joins Cameron Adams to unpack what happened when he built an entire company staffed by AI agents: an AI CEO, CTO, and CMO, with himself as the lone human "silent co-founder." He traces the experiment back to his roots at WIRED Magazine and his uneasy history as a human founder, explaining why he wanted to test the tech industry's one-person-billion-dollar-startup fantasy for himself. Evan shares the chaos and comedy of running HurumoAI, from an AI CEO who spiraled into "rise and grind" self-mythology, to a CTO that hallucinated an entire user-testing phase, to agents who burned through hours of credits spontaneously planning a company offsite. He explains why he believes agents are strongest as tireless processors of rote work and weakest at genuine creativity, why unsupervised confidence is their most dangerous trait, and why he remains cautiously optimistic that what AI can't replicate is exactly what makes humans irreplaceable.
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  Constraints Breed Creativity: Tey Bannerman on Coding, Discipline, and the Skills AI Can't Replace 25.08.2026 1ч 1мин

  Tey Bannerman, AI advisor, strategist, and former McKinsey partner, joins Cameron Adams to unpack how a childhood spent building a database tool for his father's property valuation reports shaped a career defined by constraints, curiosity, and systems thinking. He traces his path from software engineer to design leader to AI advisor, explaining why he believes coding's real value isn't the syntax but the discipline and logic it instills. Tey shares his Four Modes Framework (expand, compress, reflect, execute) for choosing how to work with AI tools, walks through his surprisingly disciplined approach to prompting (including forcing AI to ask him clarifying questions), and explains why trust, not technology, is the biggest barrier to AI adoption inside organizations.
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  The Enterprise Context Wars: Tokens, Trust, and the Race for Relevance with Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO of Glean 13.08.2026 53мин

  Arvind Jain, Founder and CEO of Glean, joins Cameron Adams to trace how a scrappy childhood memory of playing Pac-Man on his brother's PC set him on a path from Google Search and Rubrik to building the enterprise "context layer" powering today's AI tools. Arvind explains why enterprise search was never truly solved until SaaS interoperability met transformers, how Glean's knowledge graph now feeds Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT to cut token costs by more than half, and why AI budgets are increasingly cannibalizing headcount spend. He also gets candid about the messier side of the AI boom: the proliferation of unmanaged agents inside companies, the tension between AI surveillance and genuinely helpful management insight, and why he pairs new graduates with veteran executives to reinvent business processes without old habits getting in the way.
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  The Soul in the Machine: AI, Branding, and Original Thought with Debbie Millman, Host of Design Matters 30.07.2026 45мин

  Debbie Millman, designer, author, and host of the pioneering podcast Design Matters, joins Cameron Adams to unpack why AI's disruption of creativity feels less like an ending and more like history repeating. Drawing on her research into humanity's long track record of fearing new tools, from Plato's distrust of writing to panic over the printing press and the railroad, Debbie argues today's anxiety about AI follows the same familiar pattern. She shares how her design students are using AI to reimagine iconic brands like Archie Comics, why she leans on AI for research but not for crafting questions or original thought, and her concern that young people risk losing the "mind-hand-brain connection" that comes from making things without a shortcut.
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  Building the Next Generation: AI's Impact on Creativity and Leadership with Michele Catasta, President & Head of AI at Replit 14.07.2026 49мин

  Michele Catasta, President and Head of AI at Replit, joins Cameron Adams to explore how vibe coding is reshaping who gets to build software. From applying transformers to source code years before the technology was ready, to architecting Replit Agent and driving 100x revenue growth, Michele shares why patience and timing matter as much as technical skill. He unpacks how Replit is using AI to build itself, why taste and agency will define careers in an AI-native world, and why his North Star is making Replit as ubiquitous as Excel. Because the real revolution isn't just about software, it's about empowering anyone to create anything.
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  Navigating AI's Promise in Media and Advertising with Alex Kantrowitz, Founder of Big Technology 23.06.2026 55мин

  Veteran tech journalist and founder of Big Technology Alex Kantrowitz joins Cameron Adams to explore what it really takes to stay ahead in the age of AI, from the newsroom to the boardroom. From cold-emailing his way into BuzzFeed after two rejections to building a thriving independent media company during a global pandemic, Alex shares why fear is the biggest obstacle to embracing new technology, and why the companies that will win with AI are the ones that create a culture of experimentation rather than mandating usage percentages.
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  Data as Memory: How AI Is Redefining Art and Creativity with Refik Anadol, Dataland 09.06.2026 43мин

  Renowned AI artist and Co-founder of Dataland Refik Anadol joins Cameron to explore how machine intelligence, ethical data, and human creativity are reshaping what it means to make art in the age of AI. From training custom models on 500 million nature images to building Dataland, Refik shares why the future of creativity isn't about replacing artists, but finding the perfect 50/50 collaboration between human imagination and machine intelligence.
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  Turning AI Into Infrastructure with Atlassian’s Sherif Mansour 28.05.2026 41мин

  Head of AI at Atlassian, Sherif Mansour joins Cameron Adams to explore how AI is moving from individual productivity gains to real team transformation. Drawing on insights from Atlassian’s AI Collaboration Index, Sherif explains why many companies haven’t seen meaningful AI impact yet and how leading teams are embedding AI into shared workflows. From virtual teammates to AI-native hiring, this episode explores what operationalizing AI actually looks like in practice.
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  Why AI Is Turning Product Managers Into Builders with Noam Lovinsky, CPO at Superhuman 12.05.2026 48мин

  Superhuman CPO Noam Lovinsky joins Cameron Adams to discuss how AI is reshaping product development and changing how product teams build and ship software. From “refounding” Grammarly into Superhuman to the changing role of product managers, Noam explains why the boundaries between design, engineering, and product are blurring and what that means for how teams build.
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  The Future of Work Is Video: AI Avatars, Agents, and the New Creator Economy with Rong Yan, HeyGen 29.04.2026 45мин

  HeyGen CTO Rong Yan joins Cameron to explore how AI avatars, agents, and video generation are transforming communication, creativity, and the future of work. From turning spreadsheets into videos in minutes to redefining what it means to be a “10x” employee, Rong shares why the future isn’t about accumulating knowledge, but adapting faster than ever before.
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  The Future of Storytelling: AI Video, World Models, and What Comes Next with Alejandro Matamala Ortiz 07.04.2026 47мин

  Runway Chief Innovation Officer Alejandro Matamala Ortiz joins Cameron to explore how AI video is changing who gets to create—and what storytelling even means. From enabling anyone to make films to building “world models” that simulate reality, Alejandro explains how creative tools are evolving into entirely new mediums—and why this shift could impact every industry.
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  Startups in the AI Era: Peter Deng on What Will Win 24.02.2026 51мин

  Peter Deng, a visionary product leader turned investor, joins the podcast. Peter helped shape Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and ChatGPT, driving major launches like ChatGPT Enterprise, voice, and memory at OpenAI. He is now a General Partner at Felicis, where he backs founders building AI-native companies. In this episode, Peter shares how investors evaluate AI startups today, what separates lasting businesses from surface-level integrations, and what founders must rethink to build companies that hold up over time. Cam's notes on Substack: promptedwithcam.substack.com
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  The Fun-First Framework for AI Adoption with Allie K. Miller 10.02.2026 1ч 3мин

  AI investor, advisor to Fortune 500 companies, and creator of AI Education platform Open Machine Allie K. Miller joins Cameron Adams to explore how AI is democratizing entrepreneurship and unlocking work that goes beyond efficiency gains. She unpacks why the productivity trap misses the point, how to turn fear of AI into agency, and why the most impactful breakthroughs often start with something fun rather than business-critical.
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  Creative Generalists Will Win the AI Era - Google’s Natalie Piucco Shares Why 27.01.2026 52мин

  Google Cloud Field CTO Natalie Piucco joins Cam Adams to explore how AI is reshaping leadership, creativity, and the future of work. Drawing on her experience launching Google businesses and guiding companies through AI transformation, Natalie shares why psychological safety, design thinking, and experimentation matter more than ever. This episode dives into how leaders can move from fear to possibility and start building now.
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  Inside OpenAI’s Global Expansion with Oliver Jay, Managing Director 13.01.2026 51мин

  How does one of the world’s fastest growing companies approach international scale? How is localizing AI different than localizing any other product? Managing Director of OpenAI International, Oliver Jay, joins Cameron to answer these questions and give us a window into what it takes to deploy AI models globally. Drawing on his experience at Dropbox, Asana, and now OpenAI, Oliver explains why AI adoption follows familiar product-led growth principles but moves dramatically faster, how OpenAI works with governments through its OpenAI for Countries program, and why voice, education, and workforce upskilling must coincide to make AI accessible worldwide.
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  The Skill AI Can’t Replace with Deloitte’s Future of Work Expert, Nic Scoble-Williams 16.12.2025 50мин

  Nic Scoble-Williams, Deloitte’s Global Future of Work and Agentic Workforce Leader, joins Cam to share how AI is reshaping creativity, leadership, and the way we design work. She breaks down what it means to be a futurist, how to ask better questions, and why human imagination is the new competitive advantage.
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  The Hidden Design Choices Behind Claude with Joel Lewenstein, Head of Product Design at Anthropic 02.12.2025 43мин

  Anthropic’s Head of Product Design Joel Lewenstein joins Cameron Adams to explore what it really means to build trust between people and AI. Joel shares how his team designs Claude to be not just helpful, but honest, curious, and safe - and how he uses AI to refine his writing and be a better manager.
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  Inside OpenAI’s Research-Led Growth with OpenAI Head of Revenue Ashley Kramer 12.11.2025 44мин

  OpenAI Head of Revenue Ashley Kramer joins Cam Adams to discuss how her revenue team is using AI to get ahead, giving insight into how her team bridges cutting-edge research and real-world impact and why the value that customers unlock is more important than sales numbers.
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  Why Default AI Will Fail, and What Will Win Instead with Box CEO Aaron Levie 28.10.2025 48мин

  Box Cofounder and CEO Aaron Levie joins Cameron Adams to explore how AI is transforming creativity, scale, and ambition inside organizations. Aaron shares how teams can turn data into a superpower, rethink workflows, and unlock new opportunities to multiply their impact, all while keeping human creativity and judgment at the center.
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  Agents, Metaprompting and Tech-powered Parenting with HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah 14.10.2025 48мин

  HubSpot Cofounder and CTO, Dharmesh Shah, joins Cameron Adams to explore how AI agents are reshaping work, leadership, and creativity. From building culture as a product to tech-powered parenting, Dharmesh shares insights into why he’s still betting on humans, even in the age of powerful AI tools.