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Nicole Forsgren: evaluation

19 Oct 2025 Lenny's Podcast How to measure AI developer productivity in 2025 | Nicole Forsgren

“I think if we made the best decision we could at the time with the information that we had available, then it is what it is.”

— Nicole Forsgren

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Nicole Forsgren
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evaluation
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19 Oct 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…Oh, man. Okay, two more questions. Do you have a favorite life motto that you often find useful in work or life and come back to in various ways? Yeah, I think one that's come up a couple times, it's not a verbatim thing, I think it's more the vibe, hindsight is 2020, but it's also really dumb. I think if we made the best decision we could at the time with the information that we had available, then it is what it is. If you make a bad decision because you made a bad decision and you knew better, you had the information, not great. I don't think we give ourselves or other people enough grace because we always end up finding more information out later. Hear, hear. Final question. I was going to ask you something else, but as we are preparing for this, you shared that you have a new role at Google. Maybe just talk about that, what you're up to there, why you joined Google, anything folks should know.…

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