Generative AI in the Real World: Getting Ahead of the Curve with Claire Vo
Building better products and seizing new opportunities
In this episode, Ben Lorica talks with Claire Vo, chief product officer at LaunchDarkly and founder of ChatPRD. AI gives us a new set of tools that make everyone more productive and efficient. Those tools will allow more experimentation; they’ll allow more people to participate in product development; and they’ll create new opportunities for startups. As Claire says, this new tooling lets everyone get more ambitious—and if you start now, you’re on the leading edge. Lean in to the opportunities.
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About the Generative AI in the Real World podcast: In 2023, ChatGPT put AI on everyone’s agenda. In 2024, the challenge will be turning those agendas into reality. In Generative AI in the Real World, Ben Lorica interviews leaders who are building with AI. Learn from their experience to help put AI to work in your enterprise.
Timestamps
- 0:00: Introduction.
- 0:25: ChatPRD is an AI copilot for product managers and people who build products. The goal is to make more efficient people who need to generate ideas and build to requirements.
- 1:15: AI improves the quality of product work: It’s an on-demand coach or colleague.
- 1:32: To become a 100x PM, you need to embrace tools and accelerate your work. It’s learning how to scale and do your best in a highly efficient way. And you could get 2–3 days back in your week.
- 2:46: Always design your application to be model agnostic. LaunchDarkly allows engineers to decouple the configuration and release of their code from deploying in production.
- 3:56: With AI, prompts become feature flags. You can measure things like latency and token count, and make informed decisions about what works best.
- 4:37: It’s important to have the ability to experiment in classic software development. That matters even more with nondeterministic software because the ability to predict output goes down. You need to think about instrumentation from the beginning.
- 6:18: I have been through a couple of technology waves, but this one has stopped me in my tracks. The difference between what is possible and what is not possible is unbelievable. I could have built the product from my startup 10 years ago before lunchtime.
- 7:42: People need to prepare to be expected to do more because the ability to do more is powered by these tools and automations. People should educate themselves on how to automate tasks in their current job, and they should add additional skills like the ability to code.
- 8:45: Everyone can get more ambitious. There won’t be less to do. More people will be empowered to do more things and have a bigger impact.
- 9:33: If you’re embracing these tools, you’re probably early and have an opportunity to stand out. Lean in.
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