Lenny Distilled

AI requires hands-on play, not passive observation

Discovery → Design Thinking

You can't just look at screenshots or a pre-recorded video of a new product feature. AI is something you have to play with, and ideally you're playing with both the packaged up app or solution that you've built with it, but you're also playing around directly with the underlying primitives.

Howie LiuHow we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI
Supporting

The amount of detail that was contained in that v0, I mean, we're all just saying, 'Well, just ship it. There's nothing else to discuss.' It was animated, it was interactive. We were demonstrating the error state, the success state, the slow stream state. So it really empowers product builders not only with technical skills, I think that does a disservice to the tool. It empowers them to explore and augment their thinking with a lot of things that perhaps they wouldn't have considered otherwise.

Guillermo RauchEveryone's an engineer now: Inside v0's mission to create 100 million builders
Supporting

Prompting is a new way of product development or prototyping for designers and for product managers.

Karina NguyenOpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen
Nuanced

If you have an MVP and you just want to get buy-in for an idea or feature that may use AI in the future, fake it, create a little figma prototype and just show it some users, just fake what the AI is going to be doing.

Marily NikaAI and product management