The Framework Canva Uses for 200M+ Designers with Paul Tune

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AI agents are moving beyond simple automation into collaborative design workflows requiring fundamentally different approaches to user experience, model training, and infrastructure than traditional ML systems. In this episode of The Data Engineering Show, host Benjamin Wagner sits down with Paul Tune , Staff Research Scientist at Canva, to explore how the design platform is building agentic workflows, managing multimodal data pipelines, and tackling the unique challenge of teaching machines to understand aesthetic taste alongside functional design.

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