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16 Aug 2026 Lenny's Podcast OpenAI’s Head of Design: This is the best time in history to be a designer | Ian Silber
“Checking and making sure that important Slack messages that I need to follow up with are summarized and giving me context before important meetings or for recruiting or for every part of my process, I use this to augment the work that I do.”
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- Ian Silber
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- 16 Aug 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…So along those lines, I'm going to take us to a couple recurring corners of the podcast. The first corner is AI Corner. The question is just what's one way that you have found AI to be really useful in your job that maybe might inspire someone to use say ChatGPT or Codex? As a designer designer, I mean, nowadays I spend less time in the pixels, but I really do use it to help me think through broader ideas. Or I'll have an idea at night or something, and then I'll just quickly type it in and have it prototype something. And it'll give me an idea that I can go and talk to the team about and it'll help visualize something. And so that's a part of the design process. It's early ideas or we're riffing through something and I found that ChatGPT, whether it's ChatGPT Work or Codex can really help me visualize that. That's been something that's been really fun. And then there's more of the operation side. It's like I have it now. Checking and making sure that important Slack messages that I need to follow up with are summarized and giving me context before important meetings or for recruiting or for every part of my process, I use this to augment the work that I do. That makes sense. On the prototyping piece, just to give someone a tip on how to do this, are you opening up on your phone and firing off just a Codex thread? What's the mechanic of doing this at night?…
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