The transition from AI as a feature to AI as a workflow is exposing significant gaps in traditional product management. The ability to manage 'decision density' and maintain a high bar for 'minimum viable quality' in the face of unreliable models is now the defining characteristic of high-performing teams. Without a strategy for the product environment itself, PMs risk being overwhelmed by the speed of automated output.
When it comes to AI prototyping tools, you have a million options. But increasingly, many teams are going with Replit. It exploded from ~$10M to ~$150M ARR in the last 12 months. So I dove in to figure out what works and what doesn’t: What I fou...
To unlock the full potential of agents, we need a better language for them to express themselves. We need agents that can project rich, dynamic, and interactive user interfaces that adapt to the user’s intent.Read All
Alex is a conscientious product manager. He’s responsible for a customer‑requested security feature that looks straightforward. The kind of low‑hanging fruit product managers are encouraged to tackle. At the same time, Alex also owns product mark...
Note: apologies for this issue of the newsletter arriving slightly later than usual, I’m currently in San Francisco. Last night, I attended AI Night with WorkOS, and tomorrow I’ll be hosting The Pragmatic Summit. More than 200 people attended a p...
As you may know, I have been harping on reasoning as a core challenge for deep learning for well over a decade, at least since a December 2012 New Yorker article: “Realistically, deep learning is only part of the larger challenge of building inte...
AI was meant to explain and augment human intelligence. Why aren’t we getting any closer? Collage created by the author. Source for original images: https://www.tvfilmprops.co.uk/, https://www.brainline.org/tbi-basics/interactive-brainNearly ever...
Hey everyone! Jonathan, here - I’m the editor of Growth Scoop and an ‘Aspiring Elena.’ She’s letting me write this week’s post, to outline a massive growth opportunity we’re both seeing. Let me know what you think! What if the next big growth lev...
Haunting tweet by the author, 13 months agoBack in November, I wrote an essay called A trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste. It was already clear by then that generative AI was probably going to lose a lot of money. Although there is some...
👋 Hey there, I’m Lenny. Each week, I answer reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. For more: Lenny’s Podcast | How I AI | Lennybot | My favorite AI/PM courses, public speaking course, and interview ...
Photo by Mahdi Bafande on UnsplashI drove e-notary adoption from near-zero to a 3,000% increase within a homegrown CRM tool for an auto refinance business. That sentence took me four seconds to type. It takes a recruiter about two seconds to read....
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free” John 8:32 Every once in a while you learn something new that makes you completely rethink how/why an event actually happened. And then you consider how it affects the rest of our co...
Listen to this episode on: Spotify | Apple Podcasts Petra finally carved out time to try Claude Code—and immediately ran into the “this tool thinks everything is a code repo” reality. In this episode, Petra and Teresa unpack what it’s like to mov...
Exploration of the essence of what we do and how we do it Photo by Jon Tyson on UnsplashIt might be a sign of changing of the times and of our industry, it might be a marketing push from the companies betting big on AI. I don’t know. But there se...
“The intangibles seem to be becoming more important, not less important over time. It seems to be becoming more like an art and less like a science as we go.” This was Marc Andreessen describing how venture capital is changing1, but he could have...
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