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Building AI products

AI-native products, evals, agents, and how AI changes product work

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SVPG · Marty CaganFeb 25, 2025

A Vision For Product Teams

Feb 25, 2025 · 11 min

Marty Cagan argues that generative AI will reshape product teams over the next 3-10 years. Delivery work (building, testing, deploying) will become nearly instantaneous and automated, leaving product discovery, which is…

Lenny’s Podcast88 min

Why LinkedIn is turning PMs into AI-powered "full stack builders”

Tomer Cohen · Dec 4, 2025
Key learnings
  • Prioritize clarity over being right: align the team on the problem and direction even if the bet might be wrong, since confusion…
  • Test whether a disagreement is real or just a misunderstanding by asking people to restate your point in their own words before…
  • Make sure stated priorities match resourcing; if your top initiative lacks your best engineers, the priority is not real.
Lenny’s Podcast66 min

The role of AI in product development

Ryan J. Salva · Sep 4, 2022
Key learnings
  • Ring-fence a dedicated R&D team for long-horizon, uncertain bets, reserving roughly 5-10% of capacity for audacious experiments…
  • Hand off research prototypes only after customer signal exists, and move researchers back to R&D based on a trained replacement…
  • Let the team that owns the product day to day control its own roadmap; don't outsource innovation entirely to an R&D group.
Lenny’s Podcast91 min

Inside OpenAI

Logan Kilpatrick · Feb 8, 2024
Key learnings
  • Products built on general-purpose AI should either be radically better than ChatGPT in specific ways or focus on a narrow…
  • Give models rich context about who you are, your goals, and your audience; Logan argues context is the main lever for getting…
  • Treat prompt engineering like briefing a capable human with no background: explain the situation, the audience, and what good…
SVPG · Marty CaganMar 21, 2023

Disruptive Technologies

Mar 21, 2023 · 4 min

Marty Cagan argues that the rapid rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Midjourney and GPT-4 is a disruptive technology wave comparable to personal computers, the Internet, and the iPhone. He notes that disruptions…