Entries by Justin Anderson

The First Draft #1 – When the Predator Borrows Teeth: Adobe, Google, and the AI Shift

Adobe used to be the lion of the creative jungle. Now it’s outsourcing its roar to Google’s Gemini. Firefly and Express don’t stand alone anymore, they’re flexing borrowed muscle. That’s not dominance; that’s survival. On the surface, Adobe’s buffet of AI models looks generous: Firefly here, Imagen there, Veo and friends in the mix. Freedom […]

Welcome to The First Draft

The first draft isn’t pretty. It’s not polished, or rehearsed, or market-ready. It’s the scribbles in the margins, the late-night rant in a notebook, the raw idea before it’s strangled by revisions. That’s exactly why it matters. The First Draft is where the truth lives before the censors, the editors, and the corporate gloss come […]