Canva's Stef Corazza: the machinery around the model is what matters
samcharrington · x · 2026-11-13
In a podcast conversation, Stef Corazza of Canva revisits the classic "high-interest credit card" diagram — a tiny box of ML code surrounded by all the machinery that makes it useful.
Around Canva's graphic-design use case, they discuss how the pieces fit together: editable design representations, agent tooling, visual feedback, evaluation, and inference fast enough to make iteration practical — arguing the system around the model is as interesting as the model itself.
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