Lenny Rachitsky

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There's this interesting question that everyone's asking right now.

Marc Andreessen put it really well when he was on the pod.

There's this kind of like three-way standoff right now between PMs, designers, engineers, where they each think they are the future and you don't need the other with AI.

And everyone's wondering, what's the more important core skill?

I imagine your sense is now AI makes designers even more powerful.

And so this is even more the way to approach.

Talk about just like how you think this shifts this triad with AI enabling people.

Yeah, what I feel like, I don't see this happening yet, but I feel like because now it's so much easier to build, people are shipping all these okay things.

And it feels like design should have its moment of glory right now as a differentiator of like, okay, this is actually awesome.

I haven't felt that yet.

And I'm curious if that's what will begin to happen.

That's a good segue to something I wanted to ask you about, which is you're famously very in the weeds on everything that is going on, all the things that are shipping.