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BREAKING: I'm partnering with to give all Lenny's Newsletter annual subscribers a free month of Grok Bot 💥 (included in Cursor Pro+) This is the first time has offered a deal like this to anyone, and I'm thrilled to make this amazing product accessible to more people. If you're already a paid subscriber, grab your deal here (search for "Grok"): If not, subscribe here and look for the Product Pass link in your welcome email: I've been hooked on Grok Grok Bot since before it came out, and my usage has only gone up. Seriously, it's really really good. Some of my favorite use cases right now: + After I record a podcast, taking a first pass at key takeaways and promotion ideas + Automatically adding school events to the calendar + Triaging support emails (saves me hours!) + Suggesting things I can do to be happier by analyzing my emails, calendar, and Slack + Landing me great IMAX Odyssey tickets 🙌 Grab your free month of Grok Bot here (search for Grok):

BREAKING: I'm partnering with to give all Lenny's Newsletter annual subscribers a free month of Grok Bot 💥 (included in Cursor Pro+) This is the first time has offered a deal like this to anyone, and I'm thrilled to make this amazing product accessible to more people. If you're already a paid subscriber, grab your deal here (search for "Grok"): If not, subscribe here and look for the Product Pass link in your welcome email: I've been hooked on Grok Grok Bot since before it came out, and my usage has only gone up. Seriously, it's really really good. Some of my favorite use cases right now: + After I record a podcast, taking a first pass at key takeaways and promotion ideas + Automatically adding school events to the calendar + Triaging support emails (saves me hours!) + Suggesting things I can do to be happier by analyzing my emails, calendar, and Slack + Landing me great IMAX Odyssey tickets 🙌 Grab your free month of Grok Bot here (search for Grok):

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If you don't want to listen to me, listen to my AI influencer

If you don't want to listen to me, listen to my AI influencer

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It's hard to truly describe how incredible the deal is. Here's Higgsfield AI 🧩's attempt.

It's hard to truly describe how incredible the deal is. Here's Higgsfield AI 🧩's attempt.

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Robots making me dinner, robots cleaning up

Robots making me dinner, robots cleaning up

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If you're a CEO, CRO, or leading ops teams, check out what Isaac Silverman and co are building at Daydream

If you're a CEO, CRO, or leading ops teams, check out what Isaac Silverman and co are building at Daydream

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Head of Design at Stripe on how to stop creating zombie UIs

Head of Design at Stripe on how to stop creating zombie UIs

Lenny Rachitsky

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Tired: Two-pizza teams Wired: Two-slice teams Dan Shipper on the best team structure in the AI-era

Tired: Two-pizza teams Wired: Two-slice teams Dan Shipper on the best team structure in the AI-era

Lenny Rachitsky

559,934 просмотров • 9 дней назад

"There are some people in your org who are doing way more exploring than others. They are your early adopters. They're running Astra and Fable on the weekends on personal projects, to find things they might bring to work. The problem is that they can be a massive f*cking distraction. So the key question to ask yourself if you're running a product org is: how do I harness these early adopters without distracting everybody else?" Dan Shipper

"There are some people in your org who are doing way more exploring than others. They are your early adopters. They're running Astra and Fable on the weekends on personal projects, to find things they might bring to work. The problem is that they can be a massive f*cking distraction. So the key question to ask yourself if you're running a product org is: how do I harness these early adopters without distracting everybody else?" Dan Shipper

Lenny Rachitsky

51,685 просмотров • 2 дней назад

My conversation with Head of ChatGPT and Codex, Tibo We discuss: 🔸 Why the model picker is likely going away 🔸 Why loops and graphs are a passing phase 🔸 Why most actions on the internet will soon be taken by agents 🔸 OpenAI’s approach to AI safety Listen now 👇

My conversation with Head of ChatGPT and Codex, Tibo We discuss: 🔸 Why the model picker is likely going away 🔸 Why loops and graphs are a passing phase 🔸 Why most actions on the internet will soon be taken by agents 🔸 OpenAI’s approach to AI safety Listen now 👇

Lenny Rachitsky

205,910 просмотров • 14 дней назад

Grok Grok Bot is the hottest new AI product in the world right now. I'm absolutely hooked. It all started a few months ago as a tiny team holed up in a separate part of the office, building from scratch. Four weeks after the first line of code, the whole company was obsessed. Three weeks later, it launched to the world. Less than a month in, millions of Grok Bots are already helping people get work done. Roman Ugarte (Roman Ugarte) incubated, launched, and now leads product for Grok Bot. This is the first time he's told the story: 🔸 Why they started fresh instead of building it into Cursor 🔸 The two non-obvious bets that made it such a success 🔸 What they learned from manually onboarding the first 200–300 users 🔸 Why they spent the weeks before launch *unshipping* features 🔸 The first prompt to try when you open it Watch the full episode right here on X 👇

Grok Grok Bot is the hottest new AI product in the world right now. I'm absolutely hooked. It all started a few months ago as a tiny team holed up in a separate part of the office, building from scratch. Four weeks after the first line of code, the whole company was obsessed. Three weeks later, it launched to the world. Less than a month in, millions of Grok Bots are already helping people get work done. Roman Ugarte (Roman Ugarte) incubated, launched, and now leads product for Grok Bot. This is the first time he's told the story: 🔸 Why they started fresh instead of building it into Cursor 🔸 The two non-obvious bets that made it such a success 🔸 What they learned from manually onboarding the first 200–300 users 🔸 Why they spent the weeks before launch unshipping features 🔸 The first prompt to try when you open it Watch the full episode right here on X 👇

Lenny Rachitsky

604,119 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

"I like was trying to get a 1:1 with Nikita Bier. He reported up into me btw. I couldn't get him to agree. So I was like, dude, if you don't f*cking answer my DMs, I'm going to go on Intro and book you so I can just have a 1:1 with you right now. Luckily, it didn't get to that." 😅

"I like was trying to get a 1:1 with Nikita Bier. He reported up into me btw. I couldn't get him to agree. So I was like, dude, if you don't f*cking answer my DMs, I'm going to go on Intro and book you so I can just have a 1:1 with you right now. Luckily, it didn't get to that." 😅

Lenny Rachitsky

371,785 просмотров • 27 дней назад

Wild story: Five minutes before OpenAI's DevDay live demo, Tibo's Dot noticed production was down and asked to fix it. "I don't think you're there yet, little Dot, but thank you for trying." 🤣

Wild story: Five minutes before OpenAI's DevDay live demo, Tibo's Dot noticed production was down and asked to fix it. "I don't think you're there yet, little Dot, but thank you for trying." 🤣

Lenny Rachitsky

168,005 просмотров • 16 дней назад

Linear CEO Karri Saarinen: "I took a break this summer from paying attention to AI. I thought that when I came back, I'd feel left behind. But when I came back, I realized that nothing has really changed. There's new models, there's new techniques, there's new agents. But in the end, making great products, increasing revenue, and building the business—it's still hard. It's clear the tools are getting better, you can do more, you can do it faster. But I think the more important question is: are we actually making better things with these tools? Are our teams getting better with these tools? I don't think that answer is clearly yes. There's a lot of emphasis now on toolmaking and using tools and building systems. But I think in the end, as product people, our job is to make something great."

Linear CEO Karri Saarinen: "I took a break this summer from paying attention to AI. I thought that when I came back, I'd feel left behind. But when I came back, I realized that nothing has really changed. There's new models, there's new techniques, there's new agents. But in the end, making great products, increasing revenue, and building the business—it's still hard. It's clear the tools are getting better, you can do more, you can do it faster. But I think the more important question is: are we actually making better things with these tools? Are our teams getting better with these tools? I don't think that answer is clearly yes. There's a lot of emphasis now on toolmaking and using tools and building systems. But I think in the end, as product people, our job is to make something great."

Lenny Rachitsky

102,211 просмотров • 11 дней назад

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting. I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day. There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" Simon Willison

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting. I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day. There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" Simon Willison

Lenny Rachitsky

1,934,345 просмотров • 6 месяцев назад

“If we truly believe that AI is changing how we work, then ICs should get paid more than managers, because an IC can drive more impact than a manager could in the pre-AI system.” — elena verna

“If we truly believe that AI is changing how we work, then ICs should get paid more than managers, because an IC can drive more impact than a manager could in the pre-AI system.” — elena verna

Lenny Rachitsky

71,995 просмотров • 10 дней назад

"Refuse to confuse done with good." Katie Dill

"Refuse to confuse done with good." Katie Dill

Lenny Rachitsky

17,078 просмотров • 2 дней назад

CPO of Ramp Geoff Charles: I see 3 paths for product managers long-term: 1. The technical PM 2. The tastemaker PM 3. The GM

CPO of Ramp Geoff Charles: I see 3 paths for product managers long-term: 1. The technical PM 2. The tastemaker PM 3. The GM

Lenny Rachitsky

110,136 просмотров • 18 дней назад

Matic just got over-the-air updated to be able to listen to your commands 🙌

Matic just got over-the-air updated to be able to listen to your commands 🙌

Lenny Rachitsky

384,259 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

The great Molly Graham (Molly Graham) is back to share why her classic “give away your Legos” career advice is no longer true in an AI world 😮‍💨 We discuss: 🔸 Why delegating to AI is fundamentally different from delegating to a human 🔸 Why the fear narrative around AI job displacement is overblown 🔸 Which Legos you should never give to AI 🔸 The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now Listen now 👇

The great Molly Graham (Molly Graham) is back to share why her classic “give away your Legos” career advice is no longer true in an AI world 😮‍💨 We discuss: 🔸 Why delegating to AI is fundamentally different from delegating to a human 🔸 Why the fear narrative around AI job displacement is overblown 🔸 Which Legos you should never give to AI 🔸 The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now Listen now 👇

Lenny Rachitsky

102,013 просмотров • 21 дней назад

Emerging playbook for PMs at big companies exploring zero-to-one ideas: row, then steer. 1. Row: PM + designer vibe-code a working alpha 2. Once it shows pull, bring on engineers 3. Steer: Step back from coding to align, prioritize, and unblock Great story from Atlassian CPO Tamar Yehoshua 👇

Emerging playbook for PMs at big companies exploring zero-to-one ideas: row, then steer. 1. Row: PM + designer vibe-code a working alpha 2. Once it shows pull, bring on engineers 3. Steer: Step back from coding to align, prioritize, and unblock Great story from Atlassian CPO Tamar Yehoshua 👇

Lenny Rachitsky

39,427 просмотров • 8 дней назад

Fable is really good at launch videos It essentially one-shotted this video. I told it to read my launch post and create a launch video. That's it. It ran for 46 minutes (without asking me any questions), found all the product logos, and spit this out. I then asked it to add music, so it logged into my ElevenLabs account within my Chrome, generated the music, and mixed it in. Wild.

Fable is really good at launch videos It essentially one-shotted this video. I told it to read my launch post and create a launch video. That's it. It ran for 46 minutes (without asking me any questions), found all the product logos, and spit this out. I then asked it to add music, so it logged into my ElevenLabs account within my Chrome, generated the music, and mixed it in. Wild.

Lenny Rachitsky

348,334 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

For someone who doesn't believe product management is real, Nikita Bier showed us what world-class product management looks. Congrats on the legendary run Nikita. Who want to see Nikita back on the podcast to hear what he learned from this experience?

For someone who doesn't believe product management is real, Nikita Bier showed us what world-class product management looks. Congrats on the legendary run Nikita. Who want to see Nikita back on the podcast to hear what he learned from this experience?

Lenny Rachitsky

308,227 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

.Josh Woodward: "Every company right now needs a set of people who's job is to be at the frontier. You want people plugged into the hive mind. They're the people who have eight $200/month subscriptions on everything. You have to architect your organization where this can exist."

.Josh Woodward: "Every company right now needs a set of people who's job is to be at the frontier. You want people plugged into the hive mind. They're the people who have eight $200/month subscriptions on everything. You have to architect your organization where this can exist."

Lenny Rachitsky

28,382 просмотров • 6 дней назад

One of my favorite lessons from Robby Stein's talk: "People say the PM's main craft is that you do lots of things pretty well. That is somewhat true. But above all else, the craft of PM is one simple thing: decision-making. You should be students of what it takes to make great decisions."

One of my favorite lessons from Robby Stein's talk: "People say the PM's main craft is that you do lots of things pretty well. That is somewhat true. But above all else, the craft of PM is one simple thing: decision-making. You should be students of what it takes to make great decisions."

Lenny Rachitsky

73,779 просмотров • 18 дней назад

Cursor has spent its entire existence competing with every major AI lab and incumbent in the toughest market in tech—and has continued to win. So much so that Elon Musk bought them for $60 billion to help SpaceX win the AI race. They've done this by building one of the most talent-dense teams in history. Adam Ward (Adam Ward) is Head of Talent at Cursor—who acquired his legendary recruiting firm after he spent 20+ years building the most elite teams in tech—and in our conversation he shares the entire playbook for building high talent-density teams. We discuss: 🔸 Why the traditional recruiting funnel—the "funnel of doom"—guarantees mediocre hiring 🔸 Adam's three-step playbook for hiring the top 1% 🔸 The rise of the forward-deployed engineer 🔸 Today's "tale of two cities" talent market 🔸 The biggest mistake founders make with their first recruiting hire 🔸 The worst question you can ask when sourcing talent (you've definitely asked it) Watch the full episode right here 👇

Cursor has spent its entire existence competing with every major AI lab and incumbent in the toughest market in tech—and has continued to win. So much so that Elon Musk bought them for $60 billion to help SpaceX win the AI race. They've done this by building one of the most talent-dense teams in history. Adam Ward (Adam Ward) is Head of Talent at Cursor—who acquired his legendary recruiting firm after he spent 20+ years building the most elite teams in tech—and in our conversation he shares the entire playbook for building high talent-density teams. We discuss: 🔸 Why the traditional recruiting funnel—the "funnel of doom"—guarantees mediocre hiring 🔸 Adam's three-step playbook for hiring the top 1% 🔸 The rise of the forward-deployed engineer 🔸 Today's "tale of two cities" talent market 🔸 The biggest mistake founders make with their first recruiting hire 🔸 The worst question you can ask when sourcing talent (you've definitely asked it) Watch the full episode right here 👇

Lenny Rachitsky

239,536 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад