# Lenny's Podcast

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/shows/lennys-podcast/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

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Lenny's Podcast is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Lenny Rachitsky, with a new episode every week.

9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 9 with an AI builder talking, mostly on building AI products and AI startups.

Also [No. 6 of 18 tech podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/tech-podcasts/#lennys-podcast) and [No. 4 of 17 business podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/business-podcasts/#lennys-podcast).

- [Lenny Rachitsky](https://realalpha.app/hosts/)

**New episodes**

Weekly

**Latest**

Oct 18, 2026

**Moments cut**

9

**Episodes cut**

3

What its moments are about

- Building AI products 5
- AI startups 2
- AI agents 2
- Interpretability 1
- Coding agents 1
- Safety & alignment 1

## Best moments from Lenny's Podcast

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

1. Lenny's Podcast · Oct 4, 2026 · 2 min
   **[Most internet actions will soon be taken by agents](https://realalpha.app/s/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.”
   Lenny's Podcast [30:55](https://realalpha.app/v/MM-C3JqCXBk/?t=1855)
2. Lenny's Podcast · Oct 11, 2026 · 4 min
   **[The best ideas come from side projects, not design sprints](https://realalpha.app/s/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”
   Lenny's Podcast [6:10](https://realalpha.app/v/3I6QYkccd3o/?t=370)
3. Lenny's Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 6 min
   **[Models form concepts and plan beyond the next word](https://realalpha.app/s/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.”
   Lenny's Podcast [16:09](https://realalpha.app/v/JHo-aiePjoM/?t=969)
4. Lenny's Podcast · Oct 4, 2026 · 3 min
   **[OpenAI will rev-share with plugins and recommend by retention](https://realalpha.app/s/openai-will-rev-share-with-plugins-and-recommend-by/)**
   > “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.”
   Lenny's Podcast [12:50](https://realalpha.app/v/MM-C3JqCXBk/?t=770)
5. Lenny's Podcast · Oct 11, 2026 · 2 min
   **[The team knows before the leader that an idea should die](https://realalpha.app/s/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.”
   Lenny's Podcast [18:14](https://realalpha.app/v/3I6QYkccd3o/?t=1094)
6. Lenny's Podcast · Oct 18, 2026 · 4 min
   **[Smooth model progress can create sudden capability jumps](https://realalpha.app/s/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.”
   Lenny's Podcast [31:27](https://realalpha.app/v/JHo-aiePjoM/?t=1887)

## 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. 01 [OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux](https://realalpha.app/v/MM-C3JqCXBk/) Oct 4, 2026 · 3 moments
2. 02 [Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (VP Google Labs)](https://realalpha.app/v/3I6QYkccd3o/) Oct 11, 2026 · 3 moments
3. 03 [A mind-expanding conversation on how models actually work | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)](https://realalpha.app/v/JHo-aiePjoM/) Oct 18, 2026 · 3 moments

## The 3 guests we’ve cut

- [Emmanuel Ameisen](https://realalpha.app/builders/emmanuel-ameisen/) Interpretability researcher, Anthropic 3 moments
- [Josh Woodward](https://realalpha.app/builders/josh-woodward/) VP, Google Labs, Gemini app & AI Studio 3 moments
- [Tibo Sottiaux](https://realalpha.app/builders/tibo-sottiaux/) Head of ChatGPT and Codex, OpenAI 3 moments

## Recent episodes

- Lenny's Podcast
  **[A mind-expanding conversation on how models actually work | Emmanuel Ameisen (Anthropic)](https://realalpha.app/v/JHo-aiePjoM/)**
  Emmanuel Ameisen · Interpretability Researcher, Anthropic
  [11:36](https://realalpha.app/v/JHo-aiePjoM/?t=696) of 1:12:13 · Oct 18
- Lenny's Podcast
  **[Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (VP Google Labs)](https://realalpha.app/v/3I6QYkccd3o/)**
  Josh Woodward · VP, Google Labs
  [5:43](https://realalpha.app/v/3I6QYkccd3o/?t=343) of 1:02:12 · Oct 11
- Lenny's Podcast
  **[OpenAI’s Head of ChatGPT: We’re entering a new era of AI (again) | Tibo Sottiaux](https://realalpha.app/v/MM-C3JqCXBk/)**
  Tibo Sottiaux · Head of ChatGPT, OpenAI
  [30:45](https://realalpha.app/v/MM-C3JqCXBk/?t=1845) of 37:23 · Oct 4

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