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Lenny Rachitsky (@lennysan) has 461K X (Twitter) followers as of November 2026.

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Lenny Rachitsky's X (Twitter) engagement rate is 0.33% over the last 12 months, based on 4.74K posts.

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Lenny Rachitsky received 428K total likes across 4.74K posts in the last 12 months, averaging 90.4 likes per post.

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Lenny Rachitsky's X (Twitter) content generated 140M total impressions over the last 12 months.

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BREAKING: I'm partnering with @spacexai to give all Lenny's Newsletter annual subscribers a free month of Grok Bot 💥 (included in Cursor Pro+) This is the first time @spacexai has offered a deal like this to anyone, and I'm thrilled to make this amazing product accessible to more people. If you're already a paid subscriber, grab your deal here (search for "Grok"): https://www.lennysproductpass.com/ If not, subscribe here and look for the Product Pass link in your welcome email: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/subscribe I've been hooked on Grok @Bot since before it came out, and my usage has only gone up. Seriously, it's really really good. Some of my favorite use cases right now: + After I record a podcast, taking a first pass at key takeaways and promotion ideas + Automatically adding school events to the calendar + Triaging support emails (saves me hours!) + Suggesting things I can do to be happier by analyzing my emails, calendar, and Slack + Landing me great IMAX Odyssey tickets 🙌 Grab your free month of Grok Bot here (search for Grok): https://www.lennysproductpass.com/

What's a product under $250 that has genuinely improved your life?

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What's a product under $250 that has genuinely improved your life?

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer." Simon Willison (@simonw) is one of the most prolific independent software engineers and most trusted voices on how AI is changing the craft of building software. He co-created Django, coined the term "prompt injection," and popularized the terms "agentic engineering" and "AI slop." In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why November 2025 was an inflection point 🔸 The "dark factory" pattern 🔸 Why mid-career engineers (not juniors) are the most at risk right now 🔸 Three agentic engineering patterns he uses daily: red/green TDD, thin templates, hoarding 🔸 Why he writes 95% of his code from his phone while walking the dog 🔸 Why he thinks we're headed for an AI Challenger disaster 🔸 How a pelican riding a bicycle became the unofficial benchmark for AI model quality Listen now 👇 t.co/wlEIyOehU8

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"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer." Simon Willison (@simonw) is one of the most prolific independent software engineers and most trusted voices on how AI is changing the craft of building software. He co-created Django, coined the term "prompt injection," and popularized the terms "agentic engineering" and "AI slop." In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why November 2025 was an inflection point 🔸 The "dark factory" pattern 🔸 Why mid-career engineers (not juniors) are the most at risk right now 🔸 Three agentic engineering patterns he uses daily: red/green TDD, thin templates, hoarding 🔸 Why he writes 95% of his code from his phone while walking the dog 🔸 Why he thinks we're headed for an AI Challenger disaster 🔸 How a pelican riding a bicycle became the unofficial benchmark for AI model quality Listen now 👇 https://t.co/wlEIyOehU8

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The holidays are fast approaching, so I’m back with my sixth (!!) annual gift guide. It's got over 100 gift ideas—all things I actually use, love, and recommend. This started out as a random post idea, but now you’d be surprised how many people ping me asking when the new list will be out. As always, the collection includes a mix of practical stuff with a lot of fun and delight, from high-end products to very affordable items. There are no affiliate links here, and I’m not benefiting from recommending any of these products. Pro tip: After reading it, point your favorite AI agent at the post and have it brainstorm gifts for your family, friends, and coworkers. Here's the guide: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/lennys-newsletter-holiday-gift-guide-057

How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else I sat down with @_catwu, Head of Product for Claude Code at @AnthropicAI, to get a peek into their unprecedented shipping pace, how AI is changing the PM role, and how to be the right amount of AGI-pilled. We discuss: 🔸 How Anthropic’s shipping cadence went from months to weeks to days 🔸 The emerging skills PMs need to develop right now 🔸 Why you should build products that don't work yet—then wait for the model to catch up 🔸 Why a 95% automation isn't really an automation 🔸 Cat’s most underrated AI skill (introspection) 🔸 What Cat actually looks for when hiring PMs now (hint: it's not traditional PM skills) Listen now 👇 t.co/uymmT55Nq6

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How Anthropic’s product team moves faster than anyone else I sat down with @_catwu, Head of Product for Claude Code at @AnthropicAI, to get a peek into their unprecedented shipping pace, how AI is changing the PM role, and how to be the right amount of AGI-pilled. We discuss: 🔸 How Anthropic’s shipping cadence went from months to weeks to days 🔸 The emerging skills PMs need to develop right now 🔸 Why you should build products that don't work yet—then wait for the model to catch up 🔸 Why a 95% automation isn't really an automation 🔸 Cat’s most underrated AI skill (introspection) 🔸 What Cat actually looks for when hiring PMs now (hint: it's not traditional PM skills) Listen now 👇 https://t.co/uymmT55Nq6

"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.

I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.

There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw

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"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting. I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day. There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw

Automation is a lie. CLIs are over. The SaaSpocalypse is dumb. A year ago @danshipper came on the podcast to predict where AI was heading. He was remarkably right—including the call that everyone was sleeping on Claude Code. Dan has a unique lens into where things are going because his team at @every is possibly the most AI-pilled group of people in tech. I always learn a ton talking to Dan. So I brought him back for round two. We'll score these in exactly a year: 🔸 Every company will have one “super-agent” in Slack. 🔸 Codex and Claude Code will become the new operating system for knowledge work. 🔸 The AI job apocalypse is not happening. 🔸 PMs and designers will thrive. 🔸 We will read way more AI-generated writing and we will like it. 🔸 "I would buy SaaS stocks right now." Listen now 👇 t.co/wzxQ5bz49h

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Automation is a lie. CLIs are over. The SaaSpocalypse is dumb. A year ago @danshipper came on the podcast to predict where AI was heading. He was remarkably right—including the call that everyone was sleeping on Claude Code. Dan has a unique lens into where things are going because his team at @every is possibly the most AI-pilled group of people in tech. I always learn a ton talking to Dan. So I brought him back for round two. We'll score these in exactly a year: 🔸 Every company will have one “super-agent” in Slack. 🔸 Codex and Claude Code will become the new operating system for knowledge work. 🔸 The AI job apocalypse is not happening. 🔸 PMs and designers will thrive. 🔸 We will read way more AI-generated writing and we will like it. 🔸 "I would buy SaaS stocks right now." Listen now 👇 https://t.co/wzxQ5bz49h

Engineering job openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over 3 years

There are over 67,000 (!!!) eng openings at tech companies globally right now, with 26,000 just in the U.S. We don’t know if there would have been more open roles if not for AI or if AI is actually leading to more open roles, but since the start of this year, the increase in open eng roles is accelerating even more.

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Engineering job openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over 3 years There are over 67,000 (!!!) eng openings at tech companies globally right now, with 26,000 just in the U.S. We don’t know if there would have been more open roles if not for AI or if AI is actually leading to more open roles, but since the start of this year, the increase in open eng roles is accelerating even more.

STATE OF THE TECH JOB MARKET IN 2026

Twice a year, I dig into trends in hiring and job openings. This is the fifth report I've done, and the most surprising yet:

1. PMs are winning in the AI era
2. Engineering demand has stalled
3. Design openings are at a record low
4. Every role now requires AI skills
5. Tech jobs are concentrating in the Bay Area
6. Remote roles are at a record low
7. The tech job market is growing fast, but mostly outside of software (gasp!)

Full report here: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/state-of-the-tech-job-market-late

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STATE OF THE TECH JOB MARKET IN 2026 Twice a year, I dig into trends in hiring and job openings. This is the fifth report I've done, and the most surprising yet: 1. PMs are winning in the AI era 2. Engineering demand has stalled 3. Design openings are at a record low 4. Every role now requires AI skills 5. Tech jobs are concentrating in the Bay Area 6. Remote roles are at a record low 7. The tech job market is growing fast, but mostly outside of software (gasp!) Full report here: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/state-of-the-tech-job-market-late

Design lead for Claude: The classic design process is dead. Here's what's replacing it. Jenny Wen (@jennywen) leads design for Claude at @AnthropicAI, was previously director of design at @Figma, and a designer at @Dropbox, @Square, and @Shopify. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why the classic discovery → mock → iterate design process is becoming obsolete 🔸 What a day in the life of a designer at Anthropic looks like, including her AI tool stack 🔸 Whether AI will eventually surpass humans in taste and judgment 🔸 Why Jenny left a director role at Figma to return to IC work 🔸 The three archetypes Jenny is hiring for now This conversation changed how I think about the future of design. Listen now 👇 t.co/r4HICq4Ytn

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Design lead for Claude: The classic design process is dead. Here's what's replacing it. Jenny Wen (@jennywen) leads design for Claude at @AnthropicAI, was previously director of design at @Figma, and a designer at @Dropbox, @Square, and @Shopify. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why the classic discovery → mock → iterate design process is becoming obsolete 🔸 What a day in the life of a designer at Anthropic looks like, including her AI tool stack 🔸 Whether AI will eventually surpass humans in taste and judgment 🔸 Why Jenny left a director role at Figma to return to IC work 🔸 The three archetypes Jenny is hiring for now This conversation changed how I think about the future of design. Listen now 👇 https://t.co/r4HICq4Ytn

Software is not a moat Over the last 15+ years, nearly every innovation @EvanSpiegel and his team shipped got copied. Stories. AR glasses. Swipe-based navigation. The camera-first interface. And yet @Snapchat is the only independent consumer social app that has lasted. Nearly 1 billion MAUs. ~$6B in annual revenue. Over 8 billion AI photos shared on Snapchat *every day*. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why distribution—not product—is now the biggest challenge for startups 🔸 How Snap keeps inventing with a 9-to-12-person design team 🔸 How AI is changing the way designers work 🔸 Why humanity's comfort with AI will be a bigger bottleneck than the technology 🔸 Why Evan is calling this year a "crucible moment" for Snap Listen now 👇 t.co/2KO5eH2GHC

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Software is not a moat Over the last 15+ years, nearly every innovation @EvanSpiegel and his team shipped got copied. Stories. AR glasses. Swipe-based navigation. The camera-first interface. And yet @Snapchat is the only independent consumer social app that has lasted. Nearly 1 billion MAUs. ~$6B in annual revenue. Over 8 billion AI photos shared on Snapchat *every day*. In our in-depth conversation, we discuss: 🔸 Why distribution—not product—is now the biggest challenge for startups 🔸 How Snap keeps inventing with a 9-to-12-person design team 🔸 How AI is changing the way designers work 🔸 Why humanity's comfort with AI will be a bigger bottleneck than the technology 🔸 Why Evan is calling this year a "crucible moment" for Snap Listen now 👇 https://t.co/2KO5eH2GHC

I got early access to Grok Bot and I'm hooked.

I haven't been this excited about a new AI product in a while.

It's like OpenClaw, but super easy, reliable, and less scary to use. I think this will be a huge new product line for Cursor/Grok/SpaceX.

I've already found so many ways to use it that have meaningfully made my life better:
1. Matchmaking people looking for jobs with companies who are hiring (see below)
2. Auto-replying to support emails (saves me hours!)
3. Scanning my credit card statements and finding recurring subscriptions to cancel
4. Sending me (really good!) briefs for upcoming podcast guests

See below for my actual set of agents that I've been using and chat with daily.

Great work on this team Grok Bot.

(I'm not an investor in this, nor do I have any ties to this product/company. I'm just a fan!)

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I got early access to Grok Bot and I'm hooked. I haven't been this excited about a new AI product in a while. It's like OpenClaw, but super easy, reliable, and less scary to use. I think this will be a huge new product line for Cursor/Grok/SpaceX. I've already found so many ways to use it that have meaningfully made my life better: 1. Matchmaking people looking for jobs with companies who are hiring (see below) 2. Auto-replying to support emails (saves me hours!) 3. Scanning my credit card statements and finding recurring subscriptions to cancel 4. Sending me (really good!) briefs for upcoming podcast guests See below for my actual set of agents that I've been using and chat with daily. Great work on this team Grok Bot. (I'm not an investor in this, nor do I have any ties to this product/company. I'm just a fan!)

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💥 Announcing Lenny’s Jobs: The best place in the world to find, vet, and land your dream job I’ve spent thousands of hours on my newsletter and podcast sharing advice on how to get better at your work. But all that advice doesn’t mean much if you don’t actually have a job—or one you’re excited about. Over the past six months, I’ve been thinking long and hard about what more I can do to help people who are struggling to find a job they love. Today I’m excited to announce the launch of https://t.co/h5qbpegVYd—the best place in the world to find, vet, and land your dream job. What makes Lenny’s Jobs unique and awesome: 1. A laser focus on four builder roles at tech companies: product management, engineering, design, and growth/marketing. We focus exclusively on these roles because they’re what my readers are looking for—and because these roles are starting to meld together. We aggregate open roles from top startups and big tech companies, and unlike any other job directory, we vet every company we include and filter out ghost roles and generic staffing-agency posts. This is the highest-quality directory of open tech roles you’ll find anywhere.

Amol (Head of Growth at @AnthropicAI) just joined Twitter. Follow for free alpha. BTW, can you believe they hit $30B ARR before they even released Mythos?

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Amol (Head of Growth at @AnthropicAI) just joined Twitter. Follow for free alpha. BTW, can you believe they hit $30B ARR before they even released Mythos?

Claude Code launched just one year ago. Today it writes 4% of all GitHub commits, and DAU 2x'd last month alone. In my conversation with @bcherny, creator and head of Claude Code, we dig into: 🔸 Why he considers coding "largely solved" 🔸 What tech jobs will be transformed next 🔸 The counterintuitive bet that made Claude Code take off 🔸 Why he left for Cursor and what brought him back 🔸 Practical tips for getting the most out of Claude Code and Cowork 🔸 Much more Listen now👇 t.co/4hHAEq0Nto

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Claude Code launched just one year ago. Today it writes 4% of all GitHub commits, and DAU 2x'd last month alone. In my conversation with @bcherny, creator and head of Claude Code, we dig into: 🔸 Why he considers coding "largely solved" 🔸 What tech jobs will be transformed next 🔸 The counterintuitive bet that made Claude Code take off 🔸 Why he left for Cursor and what brought him back 🔸 Practical tips for getting the most out of Claude Code and Cowork 🔸 Much more Listen now👇 https://t.co/4hHAEq0Nto

The full enterprise sales cycle, step by step with @jjen_abel Most people think there are 5 sales stages. There are actually 15. Skip a step and 💀 We discuss: 🔸 The “pincer model” for landing the first meeting 🔸 How to craft a winning 2-3 sentence cold outreach pitch 🔸 How to run an intro call that extracts maximum intelligence 🔸 The correct 2-3 day pilot structure 🔸 Pro tips for navigating pricing and procurement 🔸 So much more 84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha. Listen now 👇 youtube.com/watch

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The full enterprise sales cycle, step by step with @jjen_abel Most people think there are 5 sales stages. There are actually 15. Skip a step and 💀 We discuss: 🔸 The “pincer model” for landing the first meeting 🔸 How to craft a winning 2-3 sentence cold outreach pitch 🔸 How to run an intro call that extracts maximum intelligence 🔸 The correct 2-3 day pilot structure 🔸 Pro tips for navigating pricing and procurement 🔸 So much more 84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha. Listen now 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YS9In813jJ0

Anthropic is on an unprecedented growth run. Just in the past year they grew from $1B to $19B ARR. They added $6B in ARR just in *February*. Companies like Palantir and Atlassian took 15-20 years to reach ~$5B ARR. Anthropic is adding that every month. Amol Avasare is head of growth at Anthropic, and one of the most impressive people I've had on the podcast. In his first ever public interview, Amol shares: 🔸 How Anthropic is automating growth experiments with Claude (their internal tool called “CASH”) 🔸 Why activation is the single highest-leverage growth problem in AI 🔸 Why Amol is hiring more PMs, not less 🔸 How he uses Cowork to automatically detect team misalignment in Slack 🔸 How the company’s focus on AI coding created a research flywheel that accelerated their models 🔸 How Amol landed his role by cold emailing Anthropic’s CPO @mikeyk 🔸 The brain injury that nearly ended Amol's career Listen now 👇 t.co/YEn8K2xjCQ

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Anthropic is on an unprecedented growth run. Just in the past year they grew from $1B to $19B ARR. They added $6B in ARR just in *February*. Companies like Palantir and Atlassian took 15-20 years to reach ~$5B ARR. Anthropic is adding that every month. Amol Avasare is head of growth at Anthropic, and one of the most impressive people I've had on the podcast. In his first ever public interview, Amol shares: 🔸 How Anthropic is automating growth experiments with Claude (their internal tool called “CASH”) 🔸 Why activation is the single highest-leverage growth problem in AI 🔸 Why Amol is hiring more PMs, not less 🔸 How he uses Cowork to automatically detect team misalignment in Slack 🔸 How the company’s focus on AI coding created a research flywheel that accelerated their models 🔸 How Amol landed his role by cold emailing Anthropic’s CPO @mikeyk 🔸 The brain injury that nearly ended Amol's career Listen now 👇 https://t.co/YEn8K2xjCQ

"I design teams like terrorist organizations." 90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from @petersellis We discuss: 🔸 What it's really like to manage @nikitabier 🔸 Why growth almost always comes from the core 🔸 Why great taste is knowing when to stop 🔸 Why the median PM is so bad 🔸 Designing teams like terrorist organizations Listen now 👇 youtube.com/watch

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"I design teams like terrorist organizations." 90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from @petersellis We discuss: 🔸 What it's really like to manage @nikitabier 🔸 Why growth almost always comes from the core 🔸 Why great taste is knowing when to stop 🔸 Why the median PM is so bad 🔸 Designing teams like terrorist organizations Listen now 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97LRJUUPy_w

STATE OF THE PRODUCT JOB MARKET IN EARLY 2026

In spite of the headlines about layoffs and AI taking jobs, we’re actually seeing a lot of promising signs in tech hiring, and some interesting new trends:
1. PM openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over three years
2. AI hasn’t slowed the demand for software engineers (at least not yet)
3. AI roles in general are absolutely exploding
4. Design roles have plateaued
5. The Bay Area is increasing in importance
6. Remote work opportunities continue to decline
7. Despite ongoing layoffs, the overall number of tech jobs continues to grow

More in 🧵

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STATE OF THE PRODUCT JOB MARKET IN EARLY 2026 In spite of the headlines about layoffs and AI taking jobs, we’re actually seeing a lot of promising signs in tech hiring, and some interesting new trends: 1. PM openings are at the highest levels we’ve seen in over three years 2. AI hasn’t slowed the demand for software engineers (at least not yet) 3. AI roles in general are absolutely exploding 4. Design roles have plateaued 5. The Bay Area is increasing in importance 6. Remote work opportunities continue to decline 7. Despite ongoing layoffs, the overall number of tech jobs continues to grow More in 🧵

I'd always thought AI was terrible at design, but after reading today's 🤯 post by @anshuc, I realized I was just doing it wrong.

"AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled. LLMs are trained to be next-token predictors: they look at a sequence of text and predict what typically comes next. Great design is exactly the opposite of this. Great design bends the rules and delights users with memorable, unexpected choices."

@anshuc led design and engineering teams at Apple for 12 years. In his words: "Most people only see 1% of AI's creative potential. I want to show you how to tap into the other 99%."

His 8 techniques for breaking out of the 1%:
1. Use seed strings to inject variety
2. Be much more ambitious with your prompts
3. Create positive feedback loops with subagents
4. Use image generation to enrich designs
5. Use video generation
6. Cut out elements that don’t add value
7. Remove AI tells
8. Rewrite copy by hand

Read the post here: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-turn-your-ai-into-a-world

P.S. This design was made by AI 👇

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I'd always thought AI was terrible at design, but after reading today's 🤯 post by @anshuc, I realized I was just doing it wrong. "AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled. LLMs are trained to be next-token predictors: they look at a sequence of text and predict what typically comes next. Great design is exactly the opposite of this. Great design bends the rules and delights users with memorable, unexpected choices." @anshuc led design and engineering teams at Apple for 12 years. In his words: "Most people only see 1% of AI's creative potential. I want to show you how to tap into the other 99%." His 8 techniques for breaking out of the 1%: 1. Use seed strings to inject variety 2. Be much more ambitious with your prompts 3. Create positive feedback loops with subagents 4. Use image generation to enrich designs 5. Use video generation 6. Cut out elements that don’t add value 7. Remove AI tells 8. Rewrite copy by hand Read the post here: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-turn-your-ai-into-a-world P.S. This design was made by AI 👇

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