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Jessica Fain: belief

22 Mar 2026 Lenny's Podcast The art of influence: The single most important skill that AI can’t replace | Jessica Fain (Webflow, ex-Slack)

“Base this on more corporate context than I could ever have gone through myself and poke holes. And I think that that is just a really powerful way for amplifying our work.”

— Jessica Fain

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Jessica Fain
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belief
Recorded
22 Mar 2026
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

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…What's so funny about this, essentially we're helping the agent learn the skills we've been talking about to influence you. Here's context on my goals, here's what I understand about the customers, here's our current priorities. Help me. Tell me what to do. And it's like influencing you to agree. Absolutely. Wow, that's really the singularity, isn't it? You should just feed this podcast to a bunch of agents and see if they can do this better than me, see what their advice is. No, but I really think at this point we are in a place where it is a back and forth and where we should be using agents and AI as a really smart colleague that never gets irritated by our questions. Poke holes in my ideas. Tell me what you would do differently. Help me plan this out. Base this on more corporate context than I could ever have gone through myself and poke holes. And I think that that is just a really powerful way for amplifying our work. It's so interesting. When your tips has come into an open mind and learn, it's like exactly what an agent does. Tell me more, what else should I do? And then just hopping on your ideas like, "Okay, cool. We'll add that to the..." All the ideas you've shared, agents are so good at. So that's the world-…

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