Opening
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:00): We worked on a guest post together. They had this really key insight that building AI products is very different from building non-AI products. Aishwarya Naresh Reganti (00:00:08): Most people tend to ignore the non-determinism. You don't know how the user might behave with your product, and you also don't know how the LLM might respond to that. The second difference is the agency control trade-off....
The opener names the listener's problem first, then makes the guest useful to that problem.
Accept praise cleanly
Aishwarya Naresh Reganti (00:05:13): Thank you, Lenny. Kiriti Badam (00:05:14): Thank you for having us. Super excited for this. Lenny Rachitsky...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Name the work
it's doing the right sort of work. So a few more examples that you shared in your post that I'll just read. So say you're building a coding assistant, V1 would be just suggest inline completion and...
Names a concrete strength, artifact, or contribution instead of offering generic praise.
Low-ego framing
danger also of the thing doing too much for you and just messing up your, I don't know, your database, sending out all these emails you never expected. And there's like so many reasons this is a good idea.
Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.
Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (01:25:47): Awesome. Well, Kiriti and Ash, thank you so much for being here. Kiriti Badam (01:25:52): Thank you so much. Aishwarya Naresh Reganti (01:25:53):...
Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.
Ending
AI products. And the course is a lot about unlearning mindsets and following a problem-first approach instead of a tool-first or a hype-first approach. So you can check that out as well. And if you don't want to do the course, we write a lot, we give out a lot of free resources, we have free sessions, so make sure you follow our work. Kiriti Badam (01:25:27): Yeah, I would also add that you can also find me on LinkedIn....
The ending reorients from guest intimacy to listener usefulness.