Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 1, 2025
Oct 1, 2025 · 17 min
“I recently shared 15 ways I'm using AI at home—from fixing cooking disasters to researching school bonds. Each use case helped me build new AI skills: learning to chat with a large language model (LLM), providing the right context, verifying results, and much more. Now it's time”
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 9, 2025
Oct 9, 2025
Teresa Torres interviews SallyAnn DeLucia and Jack Zhou of Arize AI about building Alyx, the AI agent that helps teams debug, optimize, and evaluate AI applications. The team describes scrappy beginnings in Jupyter…
Lenny’s Podcast105 min
Sherwin Wu V2 · Feb 12, 2026
Key learnings- Build for where models are going rather than where they are today, since products that are almost-working now can become…
- Treat fast-changing AI scaffolding skeptically: models often absorb tooling like vector stores and agent frameworks, so avoid…
- Don't blindly follow customer feature requests in AI; customers may anchor on local maxima while the underlying models are…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 30, 2025
Sep 30, 2025
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille discuss how they use AI as strategic thought partners across writing, coding, and product work rather than as ghostwriters. Petra describes a voice-first, bilingual transcription workflow…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 325
Apr 29, 2025 · 25 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyTal Raviv, guest-writing for Lenny's Newsletter, offers a hands-on guide to using AI agents to offload repetitive product management work. He walks through setting up a simple customer-prep agent, a checklist for…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 19, 2026
May 19, 2026
Teresa Torres, a product discovery educator, describes how she drifted from occasional tinkering into spending a large share of her time on real AI engineering. She built AI-powered tools for continuous discovery…
Substack · Shreyas Doshi♥ 364
Mar 4, 2026
The essay argues that as AI makes execution cheaper and faster, the scarce skill for product managers becomes product sense: the judgment to decide what is worth building and why. Mechanical PM tasks like writing specs…
Lenny’s Podcast54 min
TiboSottiaux
Key learnings- Expect most actions on the internet to be taken by agents, so build products that can serve agent traffic at scale and handle the…
- Design for the capabilities you expect in roughly a year (about 10x better than today), not just what current models can do, to…
- Favor systems that learn from your goals and feedback over hand-tuned agent loops and workflows, which Tibo thinks will be…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 23, 2025
Oct 23, 2025
This podcast episode features three leaders from Zencity, a company that helps local governments understand residents by combining survey data, 311 calls, social media, and local news into one platform. The conversation…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 16, 2025
Sep 16, 2025
Teresa Torres, host of Product Talk, is interviewed by Petra Wille about how product teams can move beyond casual use of chatbots to build AI-powered products. Drawing on months of building her own AI product, the…
Lenny’s Podcast142 min
Simon Willison · Apr 2, 2026
Key learnings- Coding agents crossed a reliability threshold around November 2025, so they now usually do what you ask, which changed how…
- Writing code is now cheap, so the bottlenecks move to ideation, prototyping, testing, and process; build several quick prototypes…
- Use test-driven development with agents: have them write tests, run them, and watch them fail first (Red/Green TDD) to keep…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 16, 2025
Oct 16, 2025
This podcast episode features three leaders from Neople, a company building 'digital coworkers' that automate work such as customer support, invoice processing, and drafting emails. The conversation traces how Neople…
SVPG · Marty CaganJun 9, 2023
Jun 9, 2023 · 17 min
Marty Cagan argues that generative AI will reshape how product teams are built and how they work, drawing on his decades of experience through successive tech disruptions like the PC, the internet, and mobile. He is…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJul 23, 2026
Jul 23, 2026 · 3 min
This episode of Just Now Possible features three Hertility team members discussing how they build AI diagnostic tools for women's health in the UK and Ireland. Hertility combines online health assessments, at-home…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 335
Jun 11, 2024 · 6 min
Lenny Rachitsky surveyed hundreds of product managers, then ran follow-up calls, to collect concrete ways PMs use Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine, in their daily work. The post groups 27 real prompts into six…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 18, 2025
Sep 18, 2025
Teresa Torres interviews Ellen Brandenburger, a former product leader at Stack Overflow, about how the company responded when ChatGPT abruptly changed developer behavior. Ellen describes the creation of Overflow AI, a…
Lenny’s Podcast93 min
Tamar Yehoshua · Sep 26, 2024
Key learnings- Excel in your current role before chasing the next one; advancement follows demonstrated impact, not just hitting goals or…
- Evaluate a potential employer's engineering partner before joining, since great ideas that can't be built lead nowhere.
- Don't assume a company must be well run to succeed; hyper-growth firms often run chaotically, but prioritize companies whose…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresAug 6, 2025
Aug 6, 2025 · 47 min
Teresa Torres recounts building an AI-powered 'interview coach' that gives students feedback on practice customer interviews, grounded in her Continuous Interviewing course rubric. She describes moving from a…
@lissijean · Melissa Perri on X♥ 8
Most teams make the mistake of waiting for data to magically appear before building their AI product. They get stuck in the classic chicken-and-egg problem: you need data to build good AI, but you need users to generate that data. So they wait. And wait. And wait some more. /1
Product Talk · Teresa TorresOct 30, 2025
Oct 30, 2025
This episode of Teresa Torres's podcast walks through how Trainline, a 25-year-old rail and coach ticketing platform, built Travel Assistant, an AI-powered companion for travelers facing disruptions and needing…
Lenny’s NewsletterAug 13, 2024
Aug 13, 2024 · 9 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyAn interview-style episode with Marily Nika, an AI product leader, on how product managers can use AI in their work and build AI-powered products. She covers practical ChatGPT prompts, when to build versus buy models…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 6, 2025
Nov 6, 2025
This episode of a product podcast features Incident.io's founding engineer Lawrence Jones and AI product lead Ed Dean discussing how their team is building an AI SRE that helps diagnose and respond to production…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 10, 2025
Sep 10, 2025 · 22 min
Teresa Torres shares answers from the Q&A of her webinar on building AI evals for the Interview Coach, a teaching tool that gives students feedback on their customer interviews. She explains her lean, hands-on tooling…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJan 22, 2026
Jan 22, 2026
This episode of Just Now Possible features three leaders from Healio, a 125-year-old medical publisher, discussing how they built Healio AI, an assistant helping physicians prepare for patient care. The core argument is…