Lenny Distilled

AI implementation takes way longer than the hype suggests

Execution → Technical Tradeoffs

These things take 6 to 12 months to get them truly robust enough where an important process can be automated. Like with any of these major tech revolutions, headlines tell one story and then on the ground, laying broadband means you need to dig up every single road in America to lay it.

Jason DroegeScale AI CEO on Meta's $14B deal, scaling Uber Eats to $80B, & what frontier labs are building next
Supporting

You can't just go and bring a third party tool and have it work on the LinkedIn stack. In fact, that's one of our biggest learnings. It never works. Never works. You have to bring it in and customize a lot of it, working almost in alpha mode with those companies to make it work internally.

Tomer CohenWhy AI is disrupting traditional product management
Supporting

Engineers notoriously, notoriously, notoriously, massively underestimate the migration time for old system to new system and that causes a lot of problems.

Camille FournierThe things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand