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1:08:29ENTaste, Authenticity and Small Pods: Instagram's Adam Mosseri on Building Products in an AI WorldHost Lenny RachitskyThe head of Instagram explains how Meta's product teams are shrinking, why human judgment and creator identity matter more as AI content grows, and what he learned from his biggest failures.
48:08ENDylan Field on Taste, Simplicity, and Designing Through the AI HypeHost Lenny RachitskyFigma's CEO explains how intuition, feedback, and relentless simplification shape products—and why craft matters more as AI generates more software.
48:58ENNotebookLM's Accidental Podcast Hit: A 20% Project, a Tiny Team, and a Remixable AI EditorHost Lenny RachitskyRaiza Martin explains how NotebookLM's Audio Overviews became a viral demo, how Google Labs let a tiny team ship like a startup, and where the product goes next.
1:21:38ENSearch Isn't Dying, It's Expanding: Robby Stein on Google's AI Mode and Building Products RelentlesslyGuest Robby Stein · Host Lenny RachitskyGoogle Search's VP of Product explains how AI Overviews, Lens and AI Mode fit together, and the product principles he carried from Instagram Stories to Google.
1:35:38ENInside ChatGPT: How a Hackathon Project Became the World's Most Used AI ProductGuest Nick Turley · Host Lenny RachitskyNick Turley, head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, explains how the product was built, why shipping fast beats polishing first, and where it goes next.
1:17:25ENDon't Trust the Process: How Design Work Is Being Rebuilt Around Engineers and AgentsHost Lenny RachitskyClaude Cowork design lead Jenny Wen explains why the classic discovery-to-mock workflow is fading, what designers do instead, and who she wants to hire.
1:35:07ENTony Fadell on Taste, Opinionated Product Decisions, and Refusing to Surrender to AIHost Lenny RachitskyThe iPod and iPhone veteran explains how v1 products get built on informed opinion, why marketing is part of the product, and where AI helps or hurts builders.
1:24:30ENFrom Curation to Recommendation to Generation: Spotify's Gustav Söderström on Rethinking ProductGuest Gustav Soderstrom · Host Lenny RachitskySpotify's co-president and CPO/CTO explains the AI DJ, a bruising homepage redesign, why squads gave way to VP-level autonomy, and what generative music might mean.
1:09:56ENWhen Anyone Can Build Anything, Taste Becomes the Product JobHost Lenny RachitskyCodex desktop lead Andrew Ambrosino on how AI has inverted product development, why roles are blurring but shouldn't vanish, and where Codex and ChatGPT are headed.
57:11ENFrom Artifact to Organism: Microsoft's Asha Sharma on Products That Learn and an Agentic SocietyGuest Asha Sharma · Host Lenny RachitskyMicrosoft's AI platform product chief explains why products are becoming living systems tuned by post-training, why interfaces are shifting toward code and composability, and how agents may reshape the org chart.
1:01:13ENNLX Is the New UX: Microsoft's Aparna Chennapragada on Designing for AgentsGuest Aparna Chennapragada · Host Lenny RachitskyMicrosoft's chief product officer explains how she is building AI products a year ahead of the market, why conversation is a designable interface, and what stays the same for product builders.
21:48ENDon't Build Zombie UI: Katie Dill on Scaling Intent and Craft in the AI Building BoomHost Lenny RachitskyStripe's head of design argues that as AI lets everyone build, a clear point of view, encoded standards, ruthless editing and real creative ambition are what keep products from turning generic.
1:12:04ENBeyond the Chat Box: OpenAI's Head of Design on Adaptive Interfaces and the Designer's FutureHost Lenny RachitskyIan Silber, head of product design at OpenAI, discusses designer anxiety, shifting roles, designing for a billion very different users, and where ChatGPT and Codex are headed.
1:27:44ENEverybody Can Cook: Guillermo Rauch on v0, Vercel and the Collapse of SpecializationGuest Guillermo Rauch · Host Lenny RachitskyVercel's CEO explains how v0 turns intent into shipped products, why understanding how software works still matters, and how teams can build taste through exposure.






