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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: uncertainty
12 Apr 2026 Lenny's Podcast Hard truths about building in the AI era | Keith Rabois (Khosla Ventures)
“You would think though, I don't know if it was Hemmingway of just like, "If I had more time, I would've made it shorter.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- uncertainty
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- 12 Apr 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Well, I think part of that's an economic decision of token rationing by the LLMs. They basically are, when you prompt, they're trying to make their economics work within a bell curve distribution. And so for example, if you prompt an LLM to write something that's very short, the quality is significantly better than if it's a page to chapter to book. I think it's tokening ratioing versus actual quality. You would think though, I don't know if it was Hemmingway of just like, "If I had more time, I would've made it shorter. " It's more work. Yeah. But then you have ... I think the writing, right now what works best is short, many short examples and then-…
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