Lenny Distilled

Work backwards from capability, not forward from frameworks

Craft → Product Sense

Supporting
I think consumers are just going to be... You are going to have an edge on other people if you're providing AI that's not accessible in a Chatbot. People are using a ton of chat and it's a really valuable service area. It's clearly valuable because people are using it. But I think products that move beyond this chat interface really are going to have such an advantage.
Supporting
What I really want is just ask my question. What are people doing? What are people saying about GPT-4? Get an answer to that question in a very data grounded way. And I've seen people solve part of this problem where, oh, they'll be like, 'Oh, well here's a few examples of what people are saying and, well, that's not really what I want. I want this summary of what's happening.'
Supporting
There's a realization that you don't control the experience anymore, you control the ingredients. It's almost like being a chef at the restaurant and you're used to deciding every part of the dish... and then this new technology comes in and say, just give me the ingredients, give me the guidelines of how you cook and now I'll take care of it.

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