I'd always thought AI was terrible at design, but after reading today's 🤯 post by @anshuc, I realized I was just doing it wrong. "AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled. LLMs are trained to be next-token predictors: they look at a sequence…↗

💥 Announcing Lenny’s Jobs: The best place in the world to find, vet, and land your dream job I’ve spent thousands of hours on my newsletter and podcast sharing advice on how to get better at your work. But all that advice doesn’t mean much if you don’t actually have a job—or on…↗

Fable is really good at launch videos It essentially one-shotted this video. I told it to read my launch post and create a launch video. That's it. It ran for 46 minutes (without asking me any questions), found all the product logos, and spit this out. I then asked it to add…↗

🚨 Announcement: I’ve co-developed a live course with my frequent collaborator and new Head of Education, Colin Matthews. It's called Become an AI-Native Builder, and you'll learn how to use the latest AI tools—including Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, and other popular AI tools—in…↗

Andrew Ambrosino (@ajambrosino) leads the team behind the Codex desktop app at @OpenAI. Codex usage has 6x'd since February, reaching over 5M weekly active users, and nearly 100% of OpenAI's employees use the Codex app regularly (and not just the engineers). Andrew's personal mi…↗

We have a winner of the Lenny's Newsletter x @Replit buildathon 🏆 Congratulations @andrey_esipov on your mind-blowing project, Operators. Y'all need to check this out: operators--andreyyesipov.replit.app Operators is a Street Fighter II-inspired fighting game where every figh…↗

A rational conversation on where AI is actually going with @benedictevans For 20+ years, Benedict has been one of the clearest, most reliable thinkers on where technology is heading, and how it'll impact our lives. He was @a16z's resident "thinker" for 5+ years, and has spent t…↗

My biggest takeaways from @danshipper: 1. The future of work will happen inside Codex or Claude Code. Instead of putting AI into your SaaS tool, you’ll use your SaaS tools inside your favorite AI agents' in-app browser. Dan spends all his time in Codex now—writing documents, man…↗

Automation is a lie. CLIs are over. The SaaSpocalypse is dumb. A year ago @danshipper came on the podcast to predict where AI was heading. He was remarkably right—including the call that everyone was sleeping on Claude Code. Dan has a unique lens into where things are going bec…↗

I rarely do interviews or talk about my personal life, but I made an exception for the team at @firstround. Their writer spent hours at my house. We talked about why I started Lenny's Newsletter, what motivates me to keep building it, and a lot of things I don't usually share p…↗

Anthropic is on an unprecedented growth run. Just in the past year they grew from $1B to $19B ARR. They added $6B in ARR just in *February*. Companies like Palantir and Atlassian took 15-20 years to reach ~$5B ARR. Anthropic is adding that every month. Amol Avasare is head of g…↗

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer." Simon Willison (@simonw) is one of the most prolific independent software engineers and most trusted voices on how AI is changing the craft of building software. He co-created Dj…↗

Claire Vo's first day with @OpenClaw it deleted her family calendar. Now she runs 9 agents across 3 Mac Minis, and said "I haven't felt like this since I was a teenager learning to code." Her sales agent Sam does a daily CRM sweep, identifies decision-makers from new signups, a…↗

What's the most underrated/underhyped AI tool in your stack right now?↗

Do you use Claude Code (or some other CLI) for a non-coding use case? I'd love to know how. Please share in the comments. If it's awesome, I'll feature you in the newsletter 👀↗

.@nikitabier hung a giant painting of Tim Cook near his desk at Facebook—right near Zuck's desk. Zuck was not amused.↗

Here's the growth journey so far↗

Product managers: What's one way you've found ChatGPT/GPT-4 practically useful in your work so far?↗

Newsletter milestone: 2️⃣5️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣💥 Some stats and learnings from my newsletter'ing journey so far:↗

I made a handy summary of all of the ways to grow your product.↗