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Lenny’s Podcast100 min

How Block is becoming the most AI-native enterprise in the world

Dhanji R. Prasanna · Oct 26, 2025
Key learnings
  • Track AI impact with self-reported time savings plus validation metrics such as PR throughput and feature delivery, which Block…
  • Expect the current AI value baseline to keep rising; adopt tools continuously and re-evaluate where they add value as…
  • Non-technical staff building their own small internal tools with agents can compress weeks of waiting on engineering queues into…
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How Shopify builds product

Jul 25, 2023 · 20 min
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An interview with Shopify's VP of Product, Glen Coates, on how the company plans around annual CEO themes, avoids OKR-style metrics ownership, reviews work through a staged system, and structures teams around merchant…

SVPG · Marty CaganMar 24, 2025

Product, Design and AI

Mar 24, 2025 · 19 min

Marty Cagan and Bob Baxley argue that in the Generative AI era, strong product managers and product designers become more essential, not less, but only when those roles are defined by their specific, demanding skill…