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The best way to learn AI coding tools is to start with a personal problem you actually want solved, not a tutorial project.

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The best product thinking comes from adjacent fields — psychology, game design, economics — not from product management literature alone.

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Product managers don't need to understand AI at a technical depth — they need to understand it at the right depth for making product decisions.

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Podcast Moments

Lazar Jovanovic00:15:20
“The biggest mistake people make is starting too big. Start with something you actually need. My first project was a simple dashboard for tracking my own metrics.”

The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job) | Lazar Jovanovic (Professional Vibe Coder) · Lazar Jovanovic

Zevi Arnovitz00:22:15
“Start with your own pain point. Don't try to build a startup. Build something you need. The motivation to finish is completely different when you're the user.”

The non-technical PM’s guide to building with Cursor | Zevi Arnovitz (Meta) · Zevi Arnovitz

Chip Huyen00:16:30
“Product managers don't need to understand backpropagation. But they need to understand what a model can and can't do, what evals mean, and how to think about AI reliability.”

Al Engineering 101 with Chip Huyen (Nvidia, Stanford, Netflix) · Chip Huyen

Katie Dill00:03:42
“Katie Dill shares her story of failure from the compilation episode on the overlooked wisdom that comes from product failures and personal setbacks.”

Failure · Failure

Various Guests00:00:02
“You can learn a lot and often a lot more from failure.”

Failure · Failure

Jackie Bavaro00:15:00
“To get better at strategy, you need to study more strategies. Read case studies, read annual reports, look at what great companies are doing and try to reverse-engineer their strategy. Most PMs don't do this enough.”

Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more · Jackie Bavaro

Cutting Room Floor

Guest insights on this topic that Lenny hasn't (yet) written about in his newsletters. Potential material for future posts.

Katie DillUnsynthesized
“Katie Dill shares her story of failure from the compilation episode on the overlooked wisdom that comes from product failures and personal setbacks.”

Failure · Failure

Various GuestsUnsynthesized
“You can learn a lot and often a lot more from failure.”

Failure · Failure

Jackie BavaroUnsynthesized
“To get better at strategy, you need to study more strategies. Read case studies, read annual reports, look at what great companies are doing and try to reverse-engineer their strategy. Most PMs don't do this enough.”

Jackie Bavaro on getting better at product strategy, what exactly is strategy, PM pitfalls to avoid, advancing your career, getting into management, and much more · Jackie Bavaro