Lenny’s Podcast105 min
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers
Tara Seshan · Aug 30, 2026
Key learnings
- Be prolific and empirical rather than theoretical: get to something testable with users as fast as possible instead of writing…
- Sharpen the single most important hypothesis (the 'eigenquestion') and design fast tests to resolve it; that loop has always been…
- Build for where models will be in two to three months: building for current capabilities or for distant future capabilities are…