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1:21:44

Lenny's Podcast 0830

AI's third era is the persistent coworker, and the product cycle is only three months

OpenAI product lead Tara Seshan argues that AI products are moving from chat, through agents, toward persistent coworkers, and that you have to build for the model capabilities of two to three months out; future work is steering rather than rowing, and writing-as-thinking should never be automated.

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1:33:50

Lenny's Podcast 0726

Without Claude Code, Opus 4.5 Would Never Have Had Its Breakout

Anthropic's product lead looks back: however strong a model gets, users only feel it through a vehicle like Claude Code — and the core of the PM job has shifted from writing PRDs to writing evals. As she puts it, the eval is the new PRD.

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