How product leaders can harness AI early adopters without distracting the whole team
lennysan · x · 2026-10-17
Lenny Rachitsky shares Dan Shipper's take on org AI adoption: a few people in every org explore far more than others — running tools like Astra and Fable on weekend side projects to find things worth bringing to work. They're your early adopters, but they "can be a massive fcking distraction." The key question for product org leaders: how do you harness these early adopters' discoveries without distracting everyone else?
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