Lenny’s Podcast131 min
Boris Cherny
Boris Cherny · Feb 19, 2026
Key learnings
- Ship with minimal scaffolding and let the model choose tools and order of operations, rather than boxing it into rigid workflows…
- Watch how people hack your product for purposes it wasn't designed for; that latent demand, like data scientists using a terminal…
- Bet on the more general model over time instead of fine-tuning or tiny models, since scaffolding gains of 10-20% often vanish…