Sitemap - 2026 - Lenny's Newsletter

🧠 Community Wisdom: PRDs for agents, tracking competitor messaging, whether software moats still exist, exercising startup options when you leave, and more

Meta’s new ‘Muse Wonder’ model: good for AI agents, bad for design

How to tell if a startup has a moat

🎙️ How I AI: How Meta designed Muse with Alex Cornell

How Meta designed Muse: an AI agent people actually want to talk to | Alex Cornell (Design Director)

Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Community Wisdom Top Contributors Summer Class 2026 + ML recommendation systems, getting back into product after being fired, deciding when to quit a side project, and more

🎙️ How I AI: 8 real Jev use cases + How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Sites (live at DevDay!) + Claire’s DevDay recap

How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Sites (live at DevDay!) | Kath Korevec (Product Lead)

OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting value from personal AI agents without handing over your inbox, the ego threat of going from IC to manager, uncommon perks to negotiate for, and more

OpenAI Dev Day 2026: The releases that actually matter

Jev: 8 real use cases for the fastest, cheapest model I’ve ever used | John Lindquist

All of the Lenny & Friends Summit talks are now online!

🎙️ How I AI: Jev for beginners + I left Claude for months, Opus 5.5 brought me back + Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol bench

Jev for beginners: how to use it and what to build

The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham

🧠 Community Wisdom: AI doomerism, speeding up discovery in a big org, verifying engineering answers as a new PM, where analytics adds the most value, and more

Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol: which model won my blind taste test?

I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I'm back

Advanced evals: How to find (and fix) hidden AI failures in your product

🎙️ How I AI: Meta’s Muse review + How Warp ships 2,000 PRs a month with AI factories

How Warp ships 2,000 PRs a month with AI factories | Zach Lloyd (CEO, Warp)

90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis

🧠 Community Wisdom: Finding your first users before the product exists, debriefing your own interviews, what to optimize for in the early years of your career, and more

Muse review: The personal AI agent that gets consumer UX right

60+ new creative growth ideas

🎙️ How I AI: How two SpaceXAI designers use Grok Bot to do their jobs

How Grok Bot designers use AI agents to build personal sites and product prototypes | John Bai & Peng Zheng

🧠 Community Wisdom: AI basketball coaching, Jira vs. Linear, building a business case for platform teams, favorite AI use cases, and more

How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)

🎙️ How I AI: GPT-6 Astra is a banger + Stripe’s AI playbook + Grok Bot vs. OpenClaw: why I replaced my entire agent stack

Build your own company brain: the enterprise AI playbook from Stripe’s engineering team | Sharadh Krishnamurthy

Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Driving AI adoption when habits are the bottleneck, leveling up from APM to a mid-level PM role, converting a wave of new users to subscription, and more

GPT-6 Astra is a banger - here’s everything I’ve built

Grok Bot vs. OpenClaw: How I replaced my entire agent stack

How to turn your AI into a world-class designer

🎙️ How I AI: How this PM uses Claude to handle 70% to 80% of his workday

How I turned Claude into a self-improving PM assistant | Daniel Blum (PM, Melio)

AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (Product Lead ChatGPT Work)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Building without clear PM requirements, selling a product before building it, pricing fast-moving B2B SaaS, a year of job hunting, and more

How to figure out your next career move

🎙️ How I AI: Grok Bot + Grok 4.6—what’s great (and what’s still hype) & Lessons from spending $20,000 on Devin in one month

I spent $20,000 on Devin in a month. Here’s what I learned | Ryan Carson (solo founder)

How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel

🧠 Community Wisdom: Favorite Lenny’s Product Pass tools, how AI is reshaping hiring, what to prioritize when you join a new company, and more

I tested Grok Bot, Grok 4.6, and Cursor Origin - here’s my honest take

Announcing Lenny’s Jobs: The best place in the world to find, vet, and land your dream job

🎙️ How I AI: How a solo founder used Codex and ChatGPT to launch a fashion brand without engineers

How a solo founder used Codex and ChatGPT to launch a fashion brand without engineers | Yana Welinder

OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber

🧠 Community Wisdom: Recovering from burnout, what Airtable’s sale says about the ceiling on a startup, keeping architecture docs up to date, running competitor analysis, and more

How to make people care about your startup

🎙️ How I AI: Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes + Claude Code for normal people

Claude Code for normal people: skills, voice mode, and how to collaborate with AI

The playbook for building high-talent-density teams | Adam Ward, Head of Talent at Cursor

🧠 Community Wisdom: Crafting outreach that reads as authentic, finding design partners, what counts as a moat when anyone can build, making a product vision stick, and more

Build an AI code review bot in 30 minutes with Vercel Eve

What if you’re not supposed to have a long-term plan?

🎙️ How I AI: ChatGPT Codex Voice + browser + Sites: an expert’s AI workflow | Nick Baumann (OpenAI)

ChatGPT Codex Voice + browser + Sites: an expert’s AI workflow | Nick Baumann (OpenAI)

This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting started with open source models, making a U.S. business trip worth it, preparing for a possible layoff, when marketing can’t keep up with product, and more

11 products I love, free for a year—the biggest Product Pass expansion in 2 years

🎙️ How I AI: Claude Opus 5 Review + Browser use in Codex + How Cursor and a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun

From zero coding background to hardware hacker: How Cursor + a Raspberry Pi makes AI fun

Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

🧠 Community Wisdom: Staying on a client’s radar during pilot purgatory, pairing Linear with a discovery tool, the limits of what AI can automate, whether Techstars is worth it, and more

Claude Opus 5 review: this model is brilliant (but annoying)

Computer and browser use in Codex (5 real examples)

Why a sabbatical can change everything

🎙️ How I AI: How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas

How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas and never sounds like slop | Alex Lieberman

Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Syncing Claude Code and Claude Design, earning trust when customers assume you vibe coded it, co-founder fallout lessons, personal CRMs, and more

🎙️ How I AI: GPT-5.6 review, How a solo builder runs 24/7 local AI, and What an agent harness is and how to build one

This solo builder runs 24/7 local AI on his own hardware | Alex Finn

How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Negative network effects, managing overconfident colleagues, developers sidestepping design decisions, keeping stakeholder meetings on track, and more

GPT-5.6 Sol vs. Claude Fable: Why OpenAI’s new model crushes my benchmark

Adam Mosseri: AI is a tailwind for authenticity

What a harness is and how to build one with Claude Agent SDK

How tech workers are feeling in 2026: a workforce splitting in two

🎙️ How I AI: Sonnet 5 review & How to run autonomous coding agents from your phone

How I run autonomous coding agents from my phone with OpenAI Symphony + Linear | Alessio Fanelli (Kernel Labs)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Quarterly planning and AI, cash vs. equity comp, paying for interview exercises, AI-powered outbound, compliance startup opportunities, and more

Sonnet 5 review: I ran 64 generations to find out if it's worth it

How top PMs increase their leverage with AI

🎙️ How I AI: GLM-5.2 review & How Gusto built a new product line with Claude Code

No Figma. No Jira. No docs. How Gusto built a new product line with Claude Code | Eddie Kim (CTO)

OpenAI Codex lead on the new shape of product work | Andrew Ambrosino

🧠 Community Wisdom: Beating a career slump, adding more structure to an established team, questions for new-team 1:1s, the evolving shape of the growth role, and more

GLM 5.2: why I’m replacing Opus in Claude Code with this new model

The new inner game: Your unfair advantage in the age of AI

🎙️ How I AI: How to write AI agent loops in Claude Code and Codex + How Claude Mythos found a 15-year-old bug in Mozilla Firefox

How Claude Mythos found a 15-year-old bug in Mozilla Firefox | Brian Grinstead

What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Fractional CPO compensation, free e-signature tools, why some users pay but never use your product, sharing Claude Code context across a team, and more

How to design AI agent loops: schedules, goals, and subagents in Claude Code and Codex

🎙️ How I AI: Claude Fable 5 review & How Braintrust uses AI agents, evals, and CI to ship better software

How Braintrust uses AI agents, evals, and CI to ship better software | Ankur Goyal

The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (founder of Zynga)

🧠 Community Wisdom: How AI is changing product operating models, tracking work stress with Whoop, whether you need a portfolio of AI side projects, marketing for tiny teams, and more

Claude Fable 5 review: what the new Mythos model gets right (and very wrong)

Essential books for product builders—part 2

🎙️ How I AI: Gemini Omni: Clone yourself with AI in under 15 minutes & Shopping with Claude

Shopping with Claude: How to find quality brands, automate returns, and buy things that last 100 years | Nicole Ruiz

Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell

🧠 Community Wisdom: Bootstrapping vs. raising funding, building the roadmap of your vibe-coded app, AI agents and data integrity, your first project as an APM, and more

Gemini Omni: Clone yourself with AI in under 15 minutes

🎙️ How I AI: Codex Goals explained & Claude Opus 4.8 review & Building an iPhone app with zero technical skills

Building an iPhone app with zero technical skills | Bryce Rattner Keithley

A rational conversation on where AI is actually going | Benedict Evans

🧠 Community Wisdom: Catching people using AI during an interview, org design when everything lives in one person’s head, when to rename your product, from nurse to health-tech PM, and more

Claude Opus 4.8 is here. Is it as good as they say?

The Codex feature that works while you sleep

Essential books for product builders—part 1

🎙️ How I AI: How the engineer behind Claude Cowork actually uses Claude Cowork & What launched at Google I/O 2026

How the engineer behind Claude Cowork actually uses Claude | Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic)

The AI paradox: More automation, more humans, more work | Dan Shipper

🧠 Community Wisdom: Best AI cold outreach app, advice for college students interested in PM, the state of AI in design, the relevance of QA in 2026, and more

Goodbye, Lenny's Reads!

What launched at Google I/O 2026 (30-minute day 1 recap)

The Lenny and Friends Summit is back!

🎙️ How I AI: HTML is the new Markdown: How Anthropic engineers are building with Claude Code

HTML is the new Markdown: How Anthropic engineers are building with Claude Code | Thariq Shihipar

Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Screening AI slop in hiring, Wispr Flow alternatives for voice transcription, multi-agent pipeline vs. MCP, and more

🎙️ How I AI: Quests, token leaderboards, and the elite AI adoption playbook & Notion’s spec-driven development

Spec-driven development: The AI engineering workflow at Notion | Ryan Nystrom

How to build a company that withstands any era | Eric Ries, Lean Startup author

🧠 Community Wisdom: What to do when non-PMs start shipping directly to production, thoughts on Claude Code’s pricing A/B test, the use of gen AI in games, and more

Code with Claude: The 5 biggest updates explained

Quests, token leaderboards, and a skills marketplace: The elite AI adoption playbook | John Kim (Sendbird)

Why SaaS freemium playbooks don’t work in AI, and what to do instead

🎙️ This week on How I AI: The internal AI tool that’s transforming how Stripe designs products

The internal AI tool that’s transforming how Stripe designs products | Owen Williams

Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Claude Code tips for ADHD users, resources for managing up, going from corporate to startup, tiring of being your company’s AI evangelist, and more

Your Couch-to-5K for AI

🎙️ This week on How I AI: GPT 5.5, Claude Design, and GPT Images 2.0 hands-on reviews—plus an inside look at Memelord

From a $6.90 newsletter to $3M API: How a non-coder built Memelord | Jason Levin

Snapchat CEO: Why distribution has become the most important moat | Evan Spiegel

🧠 Community Wisdom: What great product leaders do differently, Claude vs. ChatGPT, receiving hard feedback two weeks into the job, tips for joining a pre-PMF startup, and more

GPT 5.5 just did what no other model could

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else | Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code)

What Claude Design is actually good for (and why Figma isn’t dead yet)

New: A free year of Cursor, Google AI Pro, Notion, Supabase, Gumloop, and Fin for subscribers

🎙️ This week on How I AI: How Intercom 2x’d their engineering velocity with Claude Code

How Intercom 2x’d their engineering velocity in 9 months with Claude Code | Brian Scanlan

Why half of product managers are in trouble | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Sharing Claude Code skills across the org, Why did lennysjobs.com shut down, opening an LLC for side work, AI for SMB sales, and more

Listen: Not all AI agents are created equal

Not all AI agents are created equal

🎙️ This week on How I AI: Claude Cowork tutorial for non-engineers + Build your own Slack inbox (for $0)

Claude Cowork 101: How to automate your workday without touching code | JJ Englert (Tenex)

Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Vibe coding as a team sport, teaching interviewers to surface real signal, what’s missing from leadership offsites, and more

I built a custom Slack inbox. It was easier than you’d think. | Yash Tekriwal (Clay)

Listen: A visual guide to getting out of a creative slump

A visual guide to getting out of a creative slump

🎙️ This week on How I AI: I gave Claude Code our entire codebase. Our customers noticed.

I gave Claude Code our entire codebase. Our customers noticed. | Al Chen (Galileo)

Head of Growth (Anthropic): “Claude is growing itself at this point” | Amol Avasare

🧠 Community Wisdom: Evaluating startup equity, navigating pre-seed fundraising, MCPs vs. CLIs, Monzo’s U.S. exit, and more

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison

Listen: OpenClaw: A power user’s guide to the most powerful personal AI tool since ChatGPT

OpenClaw: The complete guide to building, training, and living with your personal AI agent

🎙️ This week on How I AI: How Stripe built “minions”—AI coding agents that ship 1,300 PRs per week + How to turn Claude Code into your personal life operating system

How to turn Claude Code into your personal life operating system | Hilary Gridley

From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo

🧠 Community Wisdom: When AI velocity outpaces your product strategy, when your estimates keep slipping, one day in San Francisco, pairing Claude Code with Codex, and more

How Stripe built “minions”—AI coding agents that ship 1,300 PRs weekly from Slack reactions | Steve Kaliski (Stripe engineer)

State of the product job market in early 2026

Listen: State of the product job market in early 2026

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🎙️ This week on How I AI: How Microsoft's AI VP automates everything with Warp

How Microsoft’s AI VP automates everything with Warp | Marco Casalaina

The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Beating the solo-founder procrastination trap, best tools for B2B prospecting, finding your first real users pre-launch, and more

Listen: How I built LennyRPG

How I built LennyRPG

🎙️ This week on How I AI: From Figma to Claude Code and back & From journalist to iOS developer

From journalist to iOS developer: How LinkedIn’s editor builds with Claude Code | Daniel Roth

The tactical playbook for getting 20-40% more comp (without sounding greedy) | Jacob Warwick (Executive Negotiator)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting a skeptical CTO to adopt AI coding tools, staying after losing faith in the founder, Claude skills for designers, making the most of a jack-of-all-trades role, and more

How I built a 1M+ subscriber newsletter and top 10 tech podcast | Lenny Rachitsky

From Figma to Claude Code and back | Gui Seiz & Alex Kern (Figma)

A guide to advanced B2B positioning

Listen: A guide to advanced B2B positioning

🎙️ This week on How I AI: Mastering Midjourney: How to create consistent, beautiful brand imagery without complex prompts

Mastering Midjourney: How to create consistent, beautiful brand imagery without complex prompts

The most successful AI company you’ve never heard of | Qasar Younis

🧠 Community Wisdom: Business books that haven’t aged well, vibe coding with your Figma design systems, Claude Code vs. other coding tools and more

How to debug a team that isn’t working: the Waterline Model

Listen: How to debug a team that isn’t working: the Waterline Model

🎙️ This week on How I AI: 5 OpenClaw agents run my home, finances, and code & How Coinbase scaled AI to 1,000+ engineers

How Coinbase scaled AI to 1,000+ engineers | Chintan Turakhia

The design process is dead. Here’s what’s replacing it. | Jenny Wen (head of design at Claude)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Building your tech stack from scratch, surviving painful product demos, managing LLM credit costs, resources for new designers, and more

AI is critical for humanity’s survival: Cisco president on the AI revolution | Jeetu Patel

5 OpenClaw agents run my home, finances, and code | Jesse Genet

How to use AI for your next job interview

Listen: How to use AI for your next job interview

🎙️ This week on How I AI: How Notion’s design team uses Claude Code to design

“I haven’t written a single line of front-end code in 3 months”: How Notion’s design team uses Claude Code to prototype

🧠 Community Wisdom: Making your product enterprise-ready, when engineering outpaces product, managing PRD versions as features evolve, planning work around energy, and more

Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny

How to do AI analysis you can actually trust

Listen: How to do AI analysis you can actually trust

🎙️ This week on How I AI: Opus vs. Codex showdown, and AI for accessibility

How this visually impaired engineer uses Claude Code to make his life more accessible | Joe McCormick

Sequoia CEO coach: Why it’s never been easier to start a company, and never been harder to scale one | Brian Halligan (co-founder, HubSpot)

🧠 Community Wisdom: How PMs are using AI coding tools, implementing reverse free trials, distinguishing yourself as a product manager vs. project manager, pricing your consulting work, and more

“Engineers are becoming sorcerers” | The future of software development with OpenAI’s Sherwin Wu

Claude Opus 4.6 vs. GPT-5.3 Codex: How I shipped 93,000 lines of code in 5 days

Building AI product sense, part 2

Listen: Building AI product sense, part 2

🎙️ This week on How I AI: How to build your own AI developer tools with Claude Code

How to build your own AI developer tools with Claude Code | CJ Hess (Tenex)

The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Common mistakes when hiring a growth PM, using AI to speed up bug reporting, launching a solo consulting practice, resume titles for engineers transitioning to PM, and more

🎙️ This week on How I AI: Automate the tasks you hate + “Anyone can cook”: How v0 is bringing Git workflows to vibe coding

Guillermo Rauch: Vercel CEO on how v0 hit 3,200 PRs merged per day (and lets anyone ship)

How to build AI product sense

How this PM uses MCPs to automate his meeting prep, CRM updates, and customer feedback synthesis | Reid Robinson (Zapier)

A child psychologist’s guide to working with difficult adults | Dr. Becky Kennedy

🧠 Community Wisdom: How you feel about your job right now, what to do while waiting for AI responses, making your product roadmap public, chasing big exits vs. sustainable bootstrapping, and more

Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet

🎙️ Today on How I AI: I gave Clawdbot (aka Moltbot) full access to my computer. It broke my family calendar and joined my podcast.

I gave Clawdbot (aka Moltbot) access to my computer, calendar, and emails: Here’s what happened

Product Pass drop: Canva, ElevenLabs, Manus, Factory, Amp, Railway, Framer—now free with your paid subscription

Listen: Product Pass drop: Canva, ElevenLabs, Manus, Factory, Amp, Railway, Framer—now free with your paid subscription

🎙️ This week on How I AI: Advanced Claude Code and Cursor techniques for power users

Advanced Claude Code techniques: context loading, mermaid diagrams, stop hooks, and more | John Lindquist

5 questions to ask when your product stops growing | Jason Cohen (2x unicorn founder)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Setting up product ops at a pre-seed startup, breaking into PM from a non-tech background, and being an AI champion without burning out

ChatGPT apps are about to be the next big distribution channel: Here’s how to build one

Listen: ChatGPT apps are about to be the next big distribution channel: Here’s how to build one

🎙️ This week on How I AI: Claude Code for product managers

Claude Code for product managers: research, writing, context libraries, custom to-do system, and more | Teresa Torres

The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta)

🧠 Community Wisdom: Managing fragmented AI usage across teams, avoiding generic UX when building with AI, tracking funnel metrics at the pre-PMF stage, thoughts on Anthropic’s Cowork, and more

How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook | Sam Lessin

🎙️This week on How I AI: The power user’s guide to Codex

The power user’s guide to Codex: parallelizing workflows, planning techniques, advanced context engineering tips, automating code reviews, and more | Alexander Embiricos

Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google, and Amazon

🧠 Community Wisdom: Building a PM copilot with a large context window, navigating career growth and relocation, managing product backlogs effectively, office seating dynamics, and more

Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 2025

🎙️This week on How I AI: Zapier's CEO shares his personal AI stack

Zapier’s CEO shares his personal AI stack | Wade Foster

The high-growth handbook: Molly Graham’s frameworks for leading through chaos, change, and scale

We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)