Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…I'll give advice to founders or leaders at companies. The way we work is going to change rapidly, and it's important to be resilient to that change. One thing that I think is really difficult now is having roadmaps, especially if you're doing anything in AI, but really anything that AI could affect, you want to be able to react to it really quickly. And so when the Anthropic drop the computer use set of capability, we slaughtered our roadmap because we don't really have an explicit roadmap. We immediately jumped on it and started building things and we launched some things around it. We're going to be doing more with it, but there's going to be capabilities that are going to drop. And you want to really, in some cases, if it really affects your business, you want to be able to jump on it really, really quickly. So being agile, not being stuck with roadmaps, being able to just say, oh, we're just going to switch priorities right away, is going to be super important. Not being, like I said, with silos at Replit, there's so many people that are on the scale of designer to engineer, designer, product manager. Actually, I mentioned Amman earlier. He started as a designer at Replit, and now as a product manager. We have people who start as designers, become engineers, and we have people in the middle and we're comfortable with that design engineers that fit at different parts of the scale. And the design engineers go to the design correct meetings and some designers go to the engineering meetings. You got to be fluid because again, when designers can code and engineers can design, I mean it really becomes, you can't have a lot of structure around that. So you want to build a culture and you want to build an environment or milieu that is really, really flexible, which is uncomfortable for a lot of people. Man, the future is wild. Everyone's a hybrid person now. Let me just actually double down on what you just said, which I think is really interesting. It's almost like if you're an engineer, where your skill set will become most valuable is unblocking these AI tools and knowing debugging and figuring out how to allow it to go further and further and further. Within PM and design land, based on what you're describing, where the skills will become more valuable is generating ideas, almost like finding opportunities, discovery, finding what problems need to be solved, and then articulating that as clearly as possible to the AI tooling. That's right.…

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