Lenny Distilled

AI changes the speed equation entirely

Execution → Shipping Velocity

Honestly, we expect it to be a decent bit more than half by the end of the year.

Scott Wu Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company's code this year
Supporting

We were only six weeks into the launch of GPT 3.5 when we actually had a beta version of Fin.

Eoghan McCabe How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI
Supporting

How would an AI native company, like a cursor or windsurf, et cetera, how would they execute? And are we executing as fast as them and taking advantage of all the new stuff as well as them?

Howie Liu How we restructured Airtable's entire org for AI
Supporting

One of the most mind-blowing examples of acceleration, the Sora Android app, like a fully new app, we built it in 18 days and then 10 days later, so 28 days total, we went to the public.

Alexander Embiricos How to drive word of mouth | Nilan Peiris (CPO of Wise)
Supporting

Most developers span less than 25, some say less than 20% of their time writing in code. So if we're able to give them half an hour back, one, they can write more code. Second, they can have a break and take a breath so we don't burn them out and they're more happy. Third, we give them more time for collaboration and creative thinking, so that sparks innovation.

Inbal Shani The future of AI in software development
With caveats

What I'm seeing is that the time to first demo is much shorter, but the time to a full deployment is going to take longer. So I think that there's going to be an uneven cadence.

Aparna Chennapragada Microsoft CPO: If you aren't prototyping with AI you're doing it wrong
With caveats

To replace any critical workflow or to build something that can give you significant ROI, it easily takes four to six months of work, even if you have the best data layer and infrastructure layer.

Aishwarya Naresh Reganti + Kiriti Badam Why most AI products fail: Lessons from 50+ AI deployments at OpenAI, Google & Amazon