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By Lenny Rachitsky · lennysnewsletter.com · @lennysan on X · YouTube · LinkedIn
A practical guide to AI prototyping for product managers, covering the main categories of tools (chatbots, cloud development environments, local developer assistants) and when to use each. It walks through turning Figma designs, PRDs, and feature ideas into working prototypes, and offers techniques like reflection, batching, specificity, and checkpointing to get better results.
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- Chatbots suit simple one-page prototypes but cannot host or easily edit multi-page code.
- Cloud development environments handle hosting and backend, letting PMs build more complete prototypes.
- Local assistants like Cursor fit people who code and are shipping serious applications.
- Ask the AI for a plan before code, and build small batches before extending features.
- Be highly specific in prompts and use rollback checkpoints to avoid losing work.
Summary and takeaways written by PM Atlas; quotes are short excerpts. © the original author.