Lenny Distilled

AI works best when treated like humans

Craft → Execution Sense

Talk to this thing like you do a Linear ticket, or a JIRA ticket. Talk to this like you would, like you're talking to one of the developers on your team.

Eric SimonsInside Bolt: From near-death to one of the fastest-growing products in history
Supporting

Explaining exactly what you expect and what you're not getting is even more important with AI than with the humans.

Anton OsikaBuilding Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people
Supporting

Don't say it doesn't work. Just explain exactly what you're expecting and which parts are working and which parts are not working.

Anton OsikaBuilding Lovable: $10M ARR in 60 days with 15 people
Supporting

I have a cheesy Chrome extension. Literally whenever I open a new tab, it just says, how can you use AI to do what you're going to do right now?

Aparna ChennapragadaMicrosoft CPO: If you aren't prototyping with AI you're doing it wrong
Nuanced

You don't want to fight against them using the models. It's similar to when the calculator came out, you don't want to give people all of this arithmetic work of how do you get them to do it and not use the calculator. You want to tell them, 'Use the tools and let's see what you can do.'

Brendan FoodyWhy experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history