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1. Lenny’s Newsletter holiday gift guide 2026
   Nov 3, 2026
2. 🎙️ How I AI: Grok vs. Dot vs. Muse vs. Duet + How Figma’s PMs actually use AI every day
   Nov 2, 2026
3. How Figma’s PMs actually use AI every day | Ezra Mechaber (PM, Figma)
   Nov 2, 2026
4. How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano
   Nov 1, 2026
5. 🧠 Community Wisdom: The biggest sources of interruptions for PMs, hiring junior PMs with case studies vs. behavioral interviews, building a product harness for AI-driven development, and more
   Oct 31, 2026
6. Grok vs. Dot vs. Muse vs. Claude Duet: which one crushes the competition?
   Oct 28, 2026
7. 🎙️ How I AI: Claude Duet honest review + Why Reddit built its own AI prototyping tool
   Oct 26, 2026
8. Why Reddit built its own AI prototyping tool | Blair Metcalf
   Oct 26, 2026
9. An 86-minute guide to finding PMF | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)
   Oct 25, 2026
10. 🧠 Community Wisdom: Negotiating a lowball offer, designers earning a seat in product decisions, resources for building an MCP server, and more
    Oct 24, 2026
11. Claude Duet is beautiful. I still forgot to use it
    Oct 21, 2026
12. 🎙️ How I AI: Meta Muse Wonder + How Brooke Lacey is scaling video with AI
    Oct 19, 2026
13. “Claude cuts my TikTok”: How this creator is scaling video with AI | Brooke Lacey
    Oct 19, 2026
14. Inside the black box of AI: How AI models actually think | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)
    Oct 18, 2026
15. 🧠 Community Wisdom: PRDs for agents, tracking competitor messaging, whether software moats still exist, exercising startup options when you leave, and more
    Oct 17, 2026
16. Meta’s new ‘Muse Wonder’ model: good for AI agents, bad for design
    Oct 14, 2026
17. How to tell if a startup has a moat
    Oct 13, 2026
18. 🎙️ How I AI: How Meta designed Muse with Alex Cornell
    Oct 12, 2026
19. How Meta designed Muse: an AI agent people actually want to talk to | Alex Cornell (Design Director)
    Oct 12, 2026
20. Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)
    Oct 11, 2026
21. 🧠 Community Wisdom: Community Wisdom Top Contributors Summer Class 2026 + ML recommendation systems, getting back into product after being fired, deciding when to quit a side project, and more
    Oct 10, 2026
22. 🎙️ How I AI: 8 real Jev use cases + How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Sites (live at DevDay!) + Claire’s DevDay recap
    Oct 5, 2026
23. How OpenAI uses ChatGPT Sites (live at DevDay!) | Kath Korevec (Product Lead)
    Oct 5, 2026
24. OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux
    Oct 4, 2026
25. 🧠 Community Wisdom: Getting value from personal AI agents without handing over your inbox, the ego threat of going from IC to manager, uncommon perks to negotiate for, and more
    Oct 3, 2026
26. OpenAI Dev Day 2026: The releases that actually matter
    Sep 30, 2026
27. Jev: 8 real use cases for the fastest, cheapest model I’ve ever used | John Lindquist
    Sep 30, 2026
28. All of the Lenny & Friends Summit talks are now online!
    Sep 29, 2026
29. 🎙️ How I AI: Jev for beginners + I left Claude for months, Opus 5.5 brought me back + Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol bench
    Sep 28, 2026
30. Jev for beginners: how to use it and what to build
    Sep 28, 2026
31. The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
    Sep 27, 2026
32. 🧠 Community Wisdom: AI doomerism, speeding up discovery in a big org, verifying engineering answers as a new PM, where analytics adds the most value, and more
    Sep 26, 2026
33. Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol: which model won my blind taste test?
    Sep 23, 2026
34. I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I'm back
    Sep 22, 2026
35. Advanced evals: How to find (and fix) hidden AI failures in your product
    Sep 22, 2026
36. 🎙️ How I AI: Meta’s Muse review + How Warp ships 2,000 PRs a month with AI factories
    Sep 21, 2026
37. How Warp ships 2,000 PRs a month with AI factories | Zach Lloyd (CEO, Warp)
    Sep 21, 2026
38. 90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord’s product chief | Peter Sellis
    Sep 20, 2026
39. 🧠 Community Wisdom: Finding your first users before the product exists, debriefing your own interviews, what to optimize for in the early years of your career, and more
    Sep 19, 2026
40. Muse review: The personal AI agent that gets consumer UX right
    Sep 16, 2026
41. 60+ new creative growth ideas
    Sep 15, 2026
42. 🎙️ How I AI: How two SpaceXAI designers use Grok Bot to do their jobs
    Sep 14, 2026
43. How Grok Bot designers use AI agents to build personal sites and product prototypes | John Bai & Peng Zheng
    Sep 14, 2026
44. 🧠 Community Wisdom: AI basketball coaching, Jira vs. Linear, building a business case for platform teams, favorite AI use cases, and more
    Sep 12, 2026
45. How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
    Sep 8, 2026
46. 🎙️ How I AI: GPT-6 Astra is a banger + Stripe’s AI playbook + Grok Bot vs. OpenClaw: why I replaced my entire agent stack
    Sep 7, 2026
47. Build your own company brain: the enterprise AI playbook from Stripe’s engineering team | Sharadh Krishnamurthy
    Sep 7, 2026
48. Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
    Sep 6, 2026
49. 🧠 Community Wisdom: Driving AI adoption when habits are the bottleneck, leveling up from APM to a mid-level PM role, converting a wave of new users to subscription, and more
    Sep 5, 2026
50. GPT-6 Astra is a banger - here’s everything I’ve built
    Sep 3, 2026