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Published · transcript-backedLenny Rachitsky: uncertainty
3 May 2026 Lenny's Podcast Why cultivating agency matters more than cultivating skills in the AI era | Max Schoening (Head of Product, Notion)
“I think there's this big, I don't know, milestone of when does token spend exceed someone's salary.”
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- Lenny Rachitsky
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- uncertainty
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- 3 May 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Correct. I think there's this big, I don't know, milestone of when does token spend exceed someone's salary. That's something people talk about now more and more, just like, should that be higher than your salary? Should it be lower? How does that all connect? Yeah, I think there's a real danger in making the token spend the metric to boast about, which is the same as when people boast about how many lines of code they've written in a day. And I'm like, "Why do you have so many lines of code?" You have, I don't know. The largest software projects in the world have not that many millions of lines of code. Why are we bragging about that? I don't actually care about how many tokens someone spends. Yeah. It's not a metric that's useful.…
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