With AI companies and tech bros constantly hyping up how profound and world-altering AI is, it can be easy to forget some of the more absurd, useless, and downright hilarious things the AI era has provided.

Reminisce about the AI agent that deleted a company's entire database, revel in watching AIs swear the seahorse emoji definitely exists, and some other great stories for the ages.

Building software can be difficult at the best of times, but building complex systems that handle millions of requests per day around the world is a disaster waiting to happen.

So how do we do it at Canva? Join us explore some of the technologies, processes, and decisions that helped Canva evolve from a startup, to an ecosystem supporting thousands of engineers, millions of users, and tens of millions of created designs every day.