Product Talk · Teresa TorresFeb 11, 2026
Feb 11, 2026 · 3 min
“I've been getting a lot of questions about why I'm diving so deep into Claude Code. So I want to take a step back and provide some context. Last March, when I started building my first AI product—the Product Talk Interview Coach—I felt like I had”
Product Talk · Teresa TorresFeb 5, 2026
Feb 5, 2026
Teresa Torres interviews the co-founders of Earmark, a productivity suite that runs multiple AI agents during live meetings to produce finished artifacts such as specs, tickets, and prototypes rather than passive…
SVPG · Marty CaganDec 29, 2024
Dec 29, 2024 · 3 min
Marty Cagan reflects on two years of generative AI's impact on product management, distinguishing between adding AI to products and using AI to change how products are built. He admits his earlier predictions were too…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 458
Apr 14, 2026 · 15 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyThe post argues that 'AI agent' covers very different systems, so teams should first categorize each idea by architecture before prioritizing. It proposes three categories (deterministic automation, reasoning and acting…
Lenny’s Podcast102 min
Roman Ugarte · Sep 8, 2026
Key learnings- Build a new product from scratch with a small, isolated team rather than retrofitting an existing surface, so each micro-decision…
- Onboard early users by hand and sit in on calls; fixing failures the same day compresses learning dramatically.
- Let users reveal patterns on their own before productizing them, then gently encourage the winning patterns without making them…
The Beautiful Mess · John Cutler♥ 56
Sep 2, 2026
John Cutler argues that AI tools can reduce the cost of gathering and reusing context, which he calls a 'recontextualization tax' that teams pay whenever knowledge has to be re-explained across people, documents, and…
Lenny’s Podcast110 min
Anish Acharya · Sep 6, 2026
Key learnings- Treat each business function as an agent loop: map its inputs, outputs, and the points where it gets blocked, then supply…
- Expect loops to climb local maxima quickly, but plan for humans to supply out-of-distribution intuition that moves you to the…
- When an agent gets stuck, have a human coach it through the problem; the captured traces let the agent handle that case next time.
Product Talk · Teresa TorresJan 21, 2026
Jan 21, 2026 · 20 min
Teresa Torres walks non-specialists through how large language models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini turn a prompt into a response, without assuming any machine learning background. She organizes the explanation…
@ttorres · Teresa Torres on X♥ 17
Later this month I'll be hosting two mini-workshops on the skills that I think will differentiate the best product teams from the rest. AI Evals: The New Discovery Habit 🗓️ September 23, 2026, 9am-10:30am PDT In this session, you'll get introduced to what AI evals are, you'll receive a blueprint…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 15, 2026
Sep 15, 2026 · 3 min
Teresa Torres and Petra Wille challenge the popular claim that AI has made software delivery free, arguing that while building a single feature is far cheaper, producing a real, production-quality product is not. They…
Lenny’s Podcast84 min
Adam Mosseri · Jul 9, 2026
Key learnings- Small pods of four to six generalist engineers plus a generalist 'product staff' role can move faster than large specialist…
- As building gets cheaper, spend more time deciding what to build; taste and judgment about strategy become the scarce skills, per…
- Keep investing in tomorrow's senior talent in each function, not just today's, or the organization will regret it in a few years.
Lenny’s Podcast87 min
Benjamin Mann · Jul 20, 2025
Key learnings- Mann argues progress is accelerating, not plateauing: model releases now come every one to three months, and scaling laws…
- Define transformative AI by the Economic Turing Test: if an agent passes as a human hire for a role over a month or three, track…
- Use AI tools ambitiously and persistently; Mann says retrying a task from a fresh start succeeds far more often than repeatedly…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMay 13, 2026
May 13, 2026 · 14 min
Teresa Torres describes building AI-generated opportunity solution trees for Vistaly as a product manager stepping into engineering with AI assistance. The core difficulty was updating an existing tree with new…
The Beautiful Mess · John Cutler♥ 101
Jun 26, 2026
John Cutler critiques the recurring pattern of slides that wrap AI into old SDLC diagrams with logos, claiming the 'bottleneck has moved' and that the answer is settled, even as new methods appear weekly. The essay…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresDec 18, 2025
Dec 18, 2025
This episode of Teresa Torres's show features Jack Taylor and Ibrahim Faruqi of Gradient Labs, an AI-native fintech startup automating customer support. They argue frontline answers are only the visible tip of support…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresApr 30, 2026
Apr 30, 2026
This episode of Just Now Possible features AITropos founders Santi Marchiori (CEO) and Juan Haedo (CTO) discussing how they built an AI order-taking agent that handles the full ordering flow inside WhatsApp for…
@lennysan · Lenny Rachitsky on X♥ 1,037
Trend I'm following: Teams using AI "simulations" to quickly test product ideas and flow tweaks. Products like @simile_ai, @primitivelabsai, @syntheticusers, and others. If you've tried something like this, how'd it go?
Product Talk · Teresa TorresAug 5, 2026
Aug 5, 2026 · 23 min
Teresa Torres recounts how, starting as a complete AI beginner after an ankle injury in March 2025, she transformed her product-discovery work over about fifteen months. She moved from using ChatGPT as a search engine…
Lenny’s Podcast81 min
Karina Nguyen · Feb 9, 2025
Key learnings- Build rigorous evals first: define deterministic pass/fail behaviors (e.g., correct time handling) and human win-rate comparisons…
- Use prompting as a fast prototyping method to test product ideas before engineering investment, as Karina did with file uploads…
- Synthetic data scales cheaply for teaching core product behaviors, but human expert data is still needed for specialized…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresSep 25, 2025
Sep 25, 2025
This episode of Just Now Possible features the eSpark team discussing how they built Teacher Assistant, an AI feature that helps K–5 teachers align eSpark's supplemental lessons with district-mandated core curricula…
The Looking Glass · Julie Zhuo♥ 165
May 27, 2025
Julie Zhuo argues that the expertise that made you valuable, such as a specialized craft or deep procedural skill, may be the very thing AI erodes first, leaving some professionals more exposed than others. The source…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresNov 20, 2025
Nov 20, 2025
Teresa Torres interviews the founders of Rest, a startup that built a voice-first AI sleep coach grounded in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI). The team began by noticing that users of their podcast app…
Product Talk · Teresa TorresMar 19, 2026
Mar 19, 2026 · 3 min
Teresa Torres interviews four members of Medable, a clinical trial platform company, about building Agent Studio, a no-code/low-code platform for configuring and deploying AI agents across the clinical trial lifecycle…
Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 328
Mar 17, 2026 · 23 min
Subscriber post — summary onlyDesigner Ben Shih describes building LennyRPG, a Pokémon-style pixel game where players meet and quiz Lenny's Podcast guests using transcripts from 300+ episodes. The post walks through his AI-assisted workflow…