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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

“I tghink it's much better to be humble about it and be like, wow, yeah, I don't know.”

— Ian Silber

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Ian Silber
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16 Aug 2026
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Lenny's Podcast

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…That is extremely helpful to hear. Elena Verna had this really great post. I don't know if you know her. She's head of growth at Lovable right now. She had this great post called Stop the AI Confidence Theater, where she just kind of is like all these people just keep posting all these things they've done with AI and all the ways it's changed their life and it's just the killing it, figure it all out. And really it's very few people, very few of these things are actually that great and working and it's just like, stop. Stop pretending like this is actually, you figured it all out. I tghink it's much better to be humble about it and be like, wow, yeah, I don't know. This changing quickly and I'm just going to embrace it and see where it goes. Yeah. And that connects to what you said was a core component of people that are doing well right now. People that are curious and just kind of poking around and trying to try these things and try them again because maybe it didn't work now. It didn't work before, now it works now.…

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