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By Lenny Rachitsky · lennysnewsletter.com · @lennysan on X · YouTube · LinkedIn
Lenny Rachitsky, introducing a guest post by Colin on AI leverage for product managers, argues that PM work is shifting from coordination toward hands-on building with AI. The post lays out three ladders of leverage (personal, product, and systems), with rungs moving from AI-assisted text to AI completing multi-step tasks and shipping code.
Subscriber post — summary only01Key takeaways
- PM work is moving away from coordinating people toward hands-on building with AI tools.
- Personal leverage climbs from AI drafting text, to generating artifacts, to completing whole to-do items.
- Connecting your LLM to product tools via MCP is what enables delegating complete tasks to AI.
- Product leverage progresses from web prototypes to prototypes built on your real codebase, then agent-shipped pull requests.
- Knowing when to write a doc, prototype, or submit a PR matters as much as the technical skill itself.
02Frameworks mentioned
Summary and takeaways written by PM Atlas; quotes are short excerpts. © the original author.