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Asha Sharma: evaluation

28 Aug 2025 Lenny's Podcast How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)

“I think that some of the most consequential products in the world required a bunch of deterministic, logical sets of inputs and sparks of creativity and imagination and judgment and vision that could not be achieved without humans.”

— Asha Sharma

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Asha Sharma
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28 Aug 2025
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Lenny's Podcast

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…I wrote this post once of which skills of a PM job will be most replaced by AI, and strategy is the one that people are the most have the biggest debate on. You could argue, I don't know, let's get into it briefly. You would think if some AI had all of the information you had about where the market is going, your metrics, your product today, it would be so good at developing a strategy for you. Many people think that's the one thing AI will be really not good at for a long time because that's where we need all this human judgment stuff. I don't know, do you have any thoughts? I think that some of the most consequential products in the world required a bunch of deterministic, logical sets of inputs and sparks of creativity and imagination and judgment and vision that could not be achieved without humans. Microsoft is the vision of a software factory and creating what Microsoft did wasn't inevitable. Instacart, there was web bands and web bands didn't work, but Instacart did work because of a different way of thinking about it. That came through and iteration and a bunch of things that you couldn't have learned unless you actually went through the process, the iPod, you go forward. So I think it's there. I think docs themselves for every idea, for every need will just start to fade into applications and different artifacts in the productivity suite, which is just a different way of working. Yeah. Your original question, which I didn't quite answer, but I think is important. You're asking do we even need strategy docs? And I guess it's just somehow everyone needs to be aligned on the strategy, maybe it's not a doc.…

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