Lenny Rachitsky: uncertainty

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…I mean everyone should be excited about using AI. I think that's a pretty big ones. And then the team working really well together is, like the lunch, you have to sit down and solve problems together. The bottleneck for most products these days is not going to be as much on engineering, but having good taste, good intuition about your users. And that, engineers and everyone preferably in the team should have that willingness at least to want to go through that motion and listen to the users and truly understand what they care about. Well it's kind of like the background of most of the engineers and people you've hired. Is there anything in common? Are they just super impressive humans generally, like champions of programming contests, stuff like that? I don't know. What are some attributes of the folks you've hired so far? I think raw cognitive capability is the strongest, the strongest correlate of being at Lovable. But there is this startup mindset that I think is also very strong. Being much more interested in moving very fast and iterating fast, then having a lot of structure, a lot of process and thinking about the business as a whole. More than thinking about my specific profession, my specific craft that I'm seeing myself wanting to dig into on me.…

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