Lenny Rachitsky
Everything Lenny personally uses, recommends, or has created — plus things they don't recommend — sourced from their own show and appearances on other podcasts.
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Ranked by repeated personal use, excluding sponsorships.
Personal use in 2 episodes
"I just find Codex and Claude are so good at actually giving you ideas for what to build. I'm just like, what should I do to make this better? And it's like, here's 10 ideas."
▶ 1:15:34"the prompt I constantly find myself using with Codex and Claude is just how can we make the product experience better?"
Personal use in 1 episode
"The thing I've also heard a lot is just find a problem you want to solve in your life or work and just open up Claude Code, tell it here's what I want to do, and it's incredible how far you can get just with a vague idea of a problem you want to solve."
▶ 55:44Personal use in 1 episode
"Grok Bot just came out of nowhere and is now like the most amazing AI kind of assistant tool. I'm just hooked on it."
▶ 44:43Personal use in 1 episode
"No, I love Wispr Flow. Use it all the time. Press function, just start talking, and it just magically transcribes everything."
▶ 53:59Personal use in 1 episode
"I am so hooked on Grok Bot. I have it over here in my window. I have like 15 bots that I use every day, all the time. It has changed my life. I use it 100 times a day for all kinds of things. And I think it's safe to say it is the hottest and most exciting new AI product in the world right now."
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"There's all these skills people have built over time with like Codex and Claude Code. I'm such a pro with all these tools and now it's just the tools are getting so much smarter."
"I personally noticed I've moved a lot of my use cases from co-work and Codex into Grok Bot just very quickly. Interestingly, Codex went the other direction — it's like a different path and a different product, but interestingly they're like now we're going to make it one thing."
"I just saw a tweet that at OpenAI, the go-to-market team now is using Codex — more of the go-to-market team is using Codex more often than even the engineering team."
"Instead of getting hooked on Codex or Claude Code, use Cursor, and then a new model comes out and you can switch and just play around with it immediately versus switching the product."
"I just had Andrew — he's the head of the Codex app at OpenAI — and you guys are aligned. PRDs are not dead, still very useful for specific projects and ideas."
"We just had the head of the Codex app on talking about why AI is not good at design, and you could clearly tell AI designed this thing."
"Now you go to the interface of Codex and it's like tabs and drop downs and dots and it's just like out of control."
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"Such a great word. Also, the movie is pretty good."
Mentioned in 5 episodes
"There's all these skills people have built over time with Codex and Claude Code. I'm such a pro with all these tools and now the tools are getting so much smarter."
"Something I've noticed on Twitter is there's definitely been this vibe shift from Claude Code to Codex in the past few months. It used to be everyone was Claude Code. More recently, it just feels like people are leaning now towards Codex."
"Instead of getting hooked on Codex or Claude Code, use Cursor, and then a new Opus comes out or GPT comes out and you can switch and just play around with it immediately versus switching the product."
"I had Fiona Fong, the head of engineering for Claude Code and co-work, on the podcast. She described the people she hires now as builders with great taste that can take an idea from end to end, and people with deep expertise in a very specific domain."
"And Claude Code is the same thing. It's just getting very complicated."
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"Does Amazon deliver to Puerto Rico?"
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"You have a newsletter called The Physics of Startups."
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"In my understanding, Linear wins over Jira often because the experience is just better. It's just like a beautiful, smooth, well-crafted experience, and so they win a lot of customers because it just feels nice and engineers really like using it."
"We often hear people at eng-oriented products talk like this — like developer tools where we don't need PMs. Why do we need PMs? And it often comes from companies like Linear and others building developer tools where you could see why engineers are enough."
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"You are the author of The Power of Pull. I've got the book right here... two different people started threads where they're like, 'Lenny, you need to get Rob on the podcast. I have been reading his book and it's extremely useful to what I've been doing.'"
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"I like the idea of thinking of it as almost like working backwards from the press release, but for sales."
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"I remember talking to the founder of Databricks, which is now a bazillion-trillion-dollar company, and he said something like even at 100 million ARR they were still very unclear if this was a thing that will last."
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"So swyx, who runs AI Engineer, the Latent Space podcast, awesome guy. You were on his podcast a year ago."
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"Along those lines, there was famously the Golden Gate Claude, which was just obsessed with the Golden Gate and in every answer would find some way to reference the Golden Gate Bridge."
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"It does feel that the advantage you all have is distribution. So once something happens... it's going to be very easy to grow it and convince people to use it, similar to, you know, within like AI Mode."
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"It feels very much like the Her kind of vision of the world. I don't know. Do you think about that movie much?"
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"Say Notion, somebody's using the Notion plugin or the Figma plugin within ChatGPT Work, Notion, Figma make money from people using it within the app."
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"Obviously, there's an OpenClaw, a big OpenClaw moment. You guys, Peter joined and there's a foundation."
Mentioned in 2 episodes
"Airbnb has always been we don't want to become that. We want it to feel really nice, to have a great experience, feel good."
"Airbnb is actually a really good example of this. Like nothing beyond the original idea has worked in a big way. It's still basically the same core idea. And I've worked there for a long time and nothing has significantly impacted the growth trajectory other than just continuing to make the core experience better — more supply, more demand."
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"Booking.com, their whole philosophy, let's optimize everything out of every second of interaction. So it's just all these upsells and pressure and stress. Just like, 'Oh my god, only one spot left.' It's just stressful."
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"I think Cursor has a $300 a month plan now."
"What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Vercel, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common? They are all powered by WorkOS."
"What do OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Replit, Sierra, Clay, and hundreds of other winning companies all have in common? They are all powered by WorkOS."
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"Instagram launched Instagram Plus — it's just like another classic Snapchat story."
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"On your LinkedIn you worked at a company that incubated Dollar Shave Club and Liquid Death."
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