Lenny Distilled

AI amplifies judgment, doesn't replace it

Craft → Analytical Sense

I actually often call AI as average intelligence that helps me get the platform up. And then I add my human thinking and my human creativity on top of it to get it to the next level. But at least I can get this base level done with AI really freaking quickly.

Elena VernaThe new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year

What AI has done for us is it's massively expanded the frontier of things we could think about our problem, hypotheses we could have, maybe things we could test. I really think actually what that does is puts more pressure on the human, not less.

Ramesh JohariMarketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more
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I always ask it to, if I wanted to use more reasoning, think hard and it'll use a different flow and I usually start with that.

Mike KriegerAnthropic's CPO on what comes next
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By the nature of having these AI tools, you get actually a pretty large explosion of questions being asked. And I think you see this in ChatGPT too, right? It's like just having a thing that you can converse with that you feel comfortable in makes a huge difference.

Albert ChengFinding hidden growth opportunities in your product