A flaw in our Lenny's Newsletter guest post
It's an open-source, locally-running AI product—and no observability.
We’ll start with the good news: here’s how Lenny introduced Aman Khan’s and my guest post today:
The post you’re about to read took over 100 hours to create. That’s because it’s not a post. It’s an open-source interactive AI experience that will help you build AI product sense.
Tal and Aman ran dozens of usability sessions, wrote evals, optimized each prompt you’ll find below, and even partnered with Cursor to get you free credits (see below!) so that you can try this at home.
I’ve never seen anything like what they’ve put together, and I’m excited to bring it to you.
This was ridiculously fun to create. Aman and I PM’d this like an AI product, and not one of those hours felt like work.
The flaw: we have no observability. Since this is an open source product that runs locally on your laptop, we have no traces, and no analytics. The only user feedback we have is YOU telling us what sucks. Just reply directly to this email to reach me, and I’ll cc Aman. We’re hungry to know!
You can stop reading here, and go experience it for yourself.
If you’re still reading, I’ll share that after our first cohort hit #1 on Maven across all categories, last week Build AI Product Sense was selected by Lenny for top course in product, which means you can use the code LENNYSLIST for 15% discount and $1,395 in free credits for Superhuman, Linear, Sprig, Dovetail, and Gamma.
Ok enough, go enjoy the post. Excited to hear from you. -Tal
Just completed the magic school bus ride. Loved the nudges where we stopped and restated the concept in our own words - helpful for retention. Ngl I was nervous to start, but the clear first steps with screenshots gave me the confidence boost I needed. I was able to complete most of the activity seamlessly with the free Cursor app, only had to skip the section comparing outputs across models - I’ll have to dig into that concept using different AI tools/models. Thanks for putting it together! Happy to chat if you’d like specific feedback.