Ely Greenfield
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I'm sure there's others that I can't even think of.
But yeah, we obviously have a large engineering team at Adobe.
It's interesting because Photoshop is 35 years old, so we in some ways have different challenges from other teams.
because these technologies working on assembly code, we still have plenty of that driving the core performance loops of Photoshop.
Yeah, or when we go and make changes to those, yeah, the ability of these coding agents to understand those is different from, hey, I'm throwing together a new web app or mobile app, et cetera.
But we do use them for most of the development we do.
Our design and product management team is using vibe coding tools to explore new ideas.
I probably can't off the top of my head tell you which tools they're using, but we are using those.
And then we use a variety of chat agents like everybody else does throughout our day for research, for small amounts of content authoring and communications work.
Adobe is a Microsoft Office, Microsoft Exchange email shop, and so we have access to their tools as part of our thing.
That's great.
And then a lot of my team, we're all,
Here's what I'll say.
A large portion of the digital media team in Adobe and probably Adobe overall are secret creatives or not so secret creatives.
Right.
I mean, so many people are photographers.
Everybody's got some sort of a creative passion, like a lot of why we all work here and
I've been on and off at Adobe for 30 years.
I keep leaving and coming back and I keep coming back because I love my own rudimentary creative skills and I love supporting creative skills.
So all of these creative AI tools, like there's a lot of usage of those across the employee base just for fun.