This week, Lenny's Podcast explored the practical challenges of building AI products at scale, with Dianne Penn from Anthropic discussing how product managers navigate the tension between token limits and user needs. The conversation surfaced a core friction in modern AI development: the gap between what's technically possible and what's economically viable, revealing how even at cutting-edge companies, constraints force difficult tradeoffs in product design.
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