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18 May 2025 Lenny's Podcast Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI, you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada

“That doesn't just mean chat, but it may be actually jumping on a meeting with the agent and being able to talk through all of it or point it to things that I wanted done differently. So I think all three things, the autonomy, the complexity, and the natural interaction are at least product principles that will shape really good ones, good agents.”

— Aparna Chennapragada

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Aparna Chennapragada
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evaluation
Recorded
18 May 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…This answers the question of what is an agent essentially, these three bullet points. So what are the three again? When I think about agents, I think about these three things. So one, it's autonomy like being... And it's a spectrum, it's not a zero-one, it's how do I actually delegate things that it can do. Second, I think of as complexity. It's not a one-shot, "Hey, summarize this document, generate this image, but it's build me this prototype or help me knock this meeting out of the park." And then the third one I think of is it's a much more natural interaction. That doesn't just mean chat, but it may be actually jumping on a meeting with the agent and being able to talk through all of it or point it to things that I wanted done differently. So I think all three things, the autonomy, the complexity, and the natural interaction are at least product principles that will shape really good ones, good agents. That is really helpful. Along this line of agents, there's this acronym that you taught me as we were chatting ahead of this podcast, NLX, what is that and how does that relate to agents and why are people not thinking about this enough?…

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