Lenny Distilled

Count first, complicate later

Craft → Analytical Sense

Basic counting is the most powerful analytical technique in data science because it's so simple and it's kind of undervalued in many cases.

Hamel Husain & Shreya ShankarWhy AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders
Supporting

Signal not noise. So typically, whenever I hire people, I want to hire smart people and kind of get out of their way. But the biggest thing I want to focus on is what is your thought process when it comes to data?

Timothy DavisThe ultimate guide to paid growth
Supporting

This is the same data science as before, and I think that's what's causing the confusion is, 'Hey, we need data science thinking,' and AI product is helpful to have that thinking in AI products like it is in any product is my take on that.

Hamel Husain & Shreya ShankarWhy AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders
Nuanced

A lot of people go straight to this agreement. They say, 'Okay, my judge agrees with the human some percentage of the time.' That sounds appealing, but it's a very dangerous metric to use, because a lot of times, errors, they only happen on the long tail and they don't happen as frequently.

Hamel Husain & Shreya ShankarWhy AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders