{"podcast":{"title":"AI and Design","slug":"ai-and-design-7655455","podcast_index_feed_id":7655455,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/8P3kTQz9.rss","website_url":"https://aianddesignpod.com/","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/69f15511-89b5-4982-b85a-4deb64c4699f/logos/9dd5c6c1-00db-4a94-9d14-bf53aa6e417c.jpeg","author":"Dan Saffer and Nik Martelaro","episode_count":23,"summary":"Two Carnegie Mellon faculty explore how artificial intelligence is reshaping the world of design. Each week, we'll break down the latest AI developments, dive deep into AI topics that matter to designers, and talk with fascinating guests who are right at the intersection of these fields. All views expressed are our own and not reflective of Carnegie Mellon or the Human-Computer Interaction Institute.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-17T04:18:44.869100+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-and-design-7655455"},"episode":{"title":"Cognitive Surrender, Speed isn't The Bottleneck, and special guest PM Thomas Groendal","slug":"cognitive-surrender-speed-isn-t-the-bottleneck-and-special-guest-pm-thomas-groendal","published_at":"2026-05-12T19:57:48+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-and-design-7655455/cognitive-surrender-speed-isn-t-the-bottleneck-and-special-guest-pm-thomas-groendal","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-and-design-7655455","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/a1b9cff0faa05bdf98ca0b59e82628c065ed202095c29070e05963aa89aeae72/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJlZjE2Nzc5Yi01OTI5LTRlZjItYTA1ZS03NGRkZTAwMzBhMDEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI2OWYxNTUxMS04OWI1LTQ5ODItYjg1YS00ZGViNjRjNDY5OWYiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NjhlOGUyODQ1ZGNmNDdmODQ0YjZlZDQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEwMzc5MGE0ZmQ0YTE5NjgyNTRlZjAzL2Rlc2lnbmluZy1haS1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTUtMTJfXzIxLTEtMzAubXAzIn0=.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/a1b9cff0faa05bdf98ca0b59e82628c065ed202095c29070e05963aa89aeae72/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiJlZjE2Nzc5Yi01OTI5LTRlZjItYTA1ZS03NGRkZTAwMzBhMDEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiI2OWYxNTUxMS04OWI1LTQ5ODItYjg1YS00ZGViNjRjNDY5OWYiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2NjhlOGUyODQ1ZGNmNDdmODQ0YjZlZDQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmEwMzc5MGE0ZmQ0YTE5NjgyNTRlZjAzL2Rlc2lnbmluZy1haS1jb21wb3Nlci0yMDI2LTUtMTJfXzIxLTEtMzAubXAzIn0=.mp3","summary":"Wharton researchers fed people AI-generated answers, half of them deliberately wrong. The participants accepted them 73% of the time — and their confidence went up. They're calling it \"cognitive surrender.\" Nik and Dan dig into what separates it from plain old cognitive offloading, and the design moves that might pull people back. Then: Ethan Ding's \"Claude Code Is Not Making Your Product Better,\" and why taste, not coding speed, is the bottleneck for product quality. Finally, Tom Groendal, Senior Product Manager at CACI's DarkBlue Intelligence Group, on what AI actually looks like inside a working product team: melting role boundaries, a \"product brain\" repo that doubles as institutional memory, and the new role that keeps surfacing in conversation after conversation — the context manager. LINKS Thinking - Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI is Reshaping Human Reasoning and the Rise of Cognitive Surrender https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6097646 Cognitive Surrender https://addyosmani.com/blog/cognitive-surrender/ Creative Tools: The Case for Keeping AI Unfinished https://medium.com/ui-for-ai/creative-tools-the-case-for-keeping-ai-unfinished-80c601821b53 claude code is not making your product better https://ethanding.substack.com/p/claude-code-is-not-making-your-product Obviously Awesome (book) https://amzn.to/433nIkR","meta_description":"Wharton researchers fed people AI-generated answers, half of them deliberately wrong. The participants accepted them 73% of the time — and their confidenc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3444,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/ai-and-design-7655455/episodes/cognitive-surrender-speed-isn-t-the-bottleneck-and-special-guest-pm-thomas-groendal/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/ai-and-design-7655455/cognitive-surrender-speed-isn-t-the-bottleneck-and-special-guest-pm-thomas-groendal.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}