Lenny Rachitsky says product professionals should experiment with new AI tools like Claude Code and Cowork, then double down on their strongest skills instead of fixing weaknesses. Focus on what gives you an unfair advantage and use it to navigate stakeholders and ship products.
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be on top of the tools. You need to be using Claude Code, you need to be using Cowork. What is the new things you can do with this? How can you apply this to your job? It'll work well in some things, it'll work terribly in other things. And then one model launch later, it's like, oh shit, that other thing worked. But if you didn't go back to try it, you would not have known. And now many months have passed and you didn't know that that was possible. Zooming out beyond that, just leaning into where you have a competitive advantage and an unfair advantage. There are some people who are really good at craft and there's others who you throw them into a situation with all these stakeholders who have all these strong opinions And you're like, there's no way they're going to mediate this. And they come out and it's like everyone's kind of swimming in the right direction. And if you think about like, what is the major skillset that you have where you spike that can be tied to driving impact for a company in a product role, I would just double down on that and almost forget the weaknesses. Just what can you do to become the best person at that thing?