Google’s New AI Will Kill Photoshop (Nano Banana)
Hunter and Daniel dive into Google’s new Nano Banana AI, a shockingly capable image-editing model that could threaten Photoshop’s throne while redefining creative work. Along the way they spar over AI schlock, recording-consent ethics, and how tools like Figma AI, GPT-5-High, and Napkin AI signal the next big shift in how humans and machines design together.
They Might Be Self-Aware · Daniel Bishop, Hunter Powers
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Show Notes
Google’s Nano Banana AI: Photoshop Killer or Just Hype?
Google just dropped Nano Banana, an image-editing model so good it makes Photoshop blink. We fired it up inside Google AI Studio and the results? Equal parts magic and menace. This isn’t just a filter upgrade; it’s a creative quake. Designers, brace yourselves.
Inside this episode, Hunter and Daniel wrestle with the question: is Google quietly ending Adobe’s reign, or birthing the next creative revolution? Along the way: a voice-recorder AI that tiptoes the line between genius and illegal recording, the rise of AI schlock, and why Figma AI and Napkin AI might actually out-innovate the giants.
We cover: Nano Banana’s wild image generation • Google AI Studio secrets • Figma vs Adobe showdown • AI ethics & recording consent • GPT-5-High’s “surgical code” trick.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 AI Gadget Confessions – Voice recorders, lost devices & the Star-Wars aesthetic
03:10 Recording Consent & “AI Schlock” – Ethics, legality, and bottom-of-the-barrel AI gadgets
11:35 GPT-5-High in Cursor – When paying per query is actually worth it
14:20 Google’s Nano Banana Revolution – Next-gen image editing, cheap runs & “Photoshop killer” talk
21:20 Figma, MCP & Napkin AI – Adobe’s future, integrated AI design, and where this all leads
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