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Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 21, 2026

Ch. 10: Testing Assumptions

Sep 21, 2026 · 5 min

This reading guide kicks off a monthly book club celebrating five years of Continuous Discovery Habits, focused this month on Chapter 10, 'Testing Assumptions.' The guide frames the chapter as a bridge between…

@hnshah · Hiten Shah on X♥ 10
If you use AI for competitor research, steal this rule. Every claim gets a date. Last week Claude answered a simple question about Linear’s competitors using an old source as if it were recent. It also stated a guess as fact. The skill forced the answer to show the dates,
Lenny’s Podcast102 min

Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future

Dianne Penn · Jul 26, 2026
Key learnings
  • Treat evals as the new PRDs: turn vague user complaints into concrete, reproducible test sets that researchers can act on and…
  • Dig into user transcripts, not just pixels, to find where the model actually failed, such as wrong tool calls, bad retrieval, or…
  • Keep strong conviction about a theme or area while staying loose about the specific prototype, and revisit bets across one to two…
@ttorres · Teresa Torres on X♥ 9
💭 "I wish I could click on this card and be like, 'Clean this up.'" When a customer pointed out a flat, unstructured branch in her AI-generated opportunity solution tree, it sparked a three-week journey to fix the problem at its source. Here's what you'll learn from this article: How one customer…

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