Everyone’s shipping more. Does any of it matter? | Claire Vo
Claire Vo joins Lenny Rachitsky to argue that AI has made shipping easy, so the real bottleneck is now deciding what is worth building at all.
The gist
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Teams fall into the backlog trap by shipping everything AI makes possible, but clearing requests without conviction just accelerates mediocrity.
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The parity trap hits when all competitors use the same AI models and talk to the same customers, producing identical products.
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Claire suggests replacing feature roadmaps with conviction-driven ones that state what you believe about the next 1 to 2 years and what evidence would prove you wrong.
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Keep convictions durable but treat features as disposable, and measure success by ambitious experiments you can run in 2 to 3 weeks.
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"I counted yesterday. I have 40 Grok bots. I can build almost anything."
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