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Model Maximalism

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Lenny’s Podcast116 min

OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more

Kevin Weil · Apr 10, 2025
Key learnings
  • Build products at the edge of current model capabilities, since models improve every few months and a barely-working product can…
  • Treat evals as unit tests for models: define hero use cases, write evals for them, and hill-climb on those evals to know whether…
  • Expect AI behavior to be fuzzy: a model right 60%, 95%, or 99.5% of the time implies very different product designs, so study…