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Lenny Rachitsky: evaluation

26 Jul 2026 Lenny's Podcast Anthropic’s first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

“It used to be the way founders push people like, what if we 10X this? And I love what I keep hearing is it's like, how do we go 1,000X from this idea?”

— Lenny Rachitsky

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Lenny Rachitsky
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evaluation
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26 Jul 2026
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Yeah. And it comes back to our earlier point around thinking. How do you protect your thinking? If you have an AI that can be a thinking partner, a thinking partner doesn't just agree with you. It should add to you. And you should come away at the end of the day having better ideas because you worked with Claude. That should be the hero goal, not just making your ideas 10% better. Yeah, I love this sense. It used to be think 10X. It used to be the way founders push people like, what if we 10X this? And I love what I keep hearing is it's like, how do we go 1,000X from this idea? What is the most ambitious version of this? I want to come back to something that I was thinking about as we were talking about talking to Claude constantly. It's very clear when AI has written something still. It's funny that it's a large language model. You would think, of all things, it would be very good at writing, and interestingly, just no AI is very good at writing. It's always very clear this was AI-written. Do you think we'll get to a place where we will not know this was AI? I think it depends on what's the goal that you're looking to achieve by knowing or known-…

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