Lenny's Podcast

Best moments from Lenny's Podcast

From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here.

1. 2:12

   Lenny's Podcast · Oct 4, 2026 · 2 min

   Most internet actions will soon be taken by agents

   “I think the majority of actions on the internet will be taken by agents. Models are going to become more cheaper and faster at rates that are, you know, quite incredible.”

2. 4:00

   Lenny's Podcast · Oct 11, 2026 · 4 min

   The best ideas come from side projects, not design sprints

   “They very rarely, at least in my experience, have come from design sprints or times where you set aside on a calendar”

3. 5:41

   Lenny's Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 6 min

   Models form concepts and plan beyond the next word

   “They write a line and then like in their intermediate results, they're like, oh, oh, oh, this is an it rhyme. I should rhyme with rabbit.”

4. 2:54

   Lenny's Podcast · Oct 4, 2026 · 3 min

   OpenAI will rev-share with plugins and recommend by retention

   “we will pay our plugins that are popular and are seeing a lot of usage. They're going to get part of the revenue share as well.”

5. 1:47

   Lenny's Podcast · Oct 11, 2026 · 2 min

   The team knows before the leader that an idea should die

   “What I found is the opposite. The team usually knows before the leader knows.”

6. 3:45

   Lenny's Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 4 min

   Smooth model progress can create sudden capability jumps

   “And that's because it went from doing that correctly, I don't know, 80% of the time, which was not useful, to 99% of the time, which now is useful.”

The best Lenny's Podcast episodes

Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar.

1. 01OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo SottiauxOct 4, 2026 · 3 moments
2. 02Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (VP Google Labs)Oct 11, 2026 · 3 moments
3. 03A mind-expanding conversation on how models actually work | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)Oct 18, 2026 · 3 moments

The 3 guests we’ve cut

• Emmanuel AmeisenInterpretability researcher, Anthropic3 moments
• Josh WoodwardVP, Google Labs, Gemini app & AI Studio3 moments
• Tibo SottiauxHead of ChatGPT and Codex, OpenAI3 moments

Recent episodes

• 5:41

  Lenny's Podcast

  A mind-expanding conversation on how models actually work | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)

  Emmanuel Ameisen · Interpretability Researcher, Anthropic

  11:36of 1:12:13 · Oct 18
• 4:00

  Lenny's Podcast

  Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (VP Google Labs)

  Josh Woodward · VP, Google Labs

  5:43of 1:02:12 · Oct 11
• 2:12

  Lenny's Podcast

  OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux

  Tibo Sottiaux · Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI

  30:45of 37:23 · Oct 4