Context is now the product: Product leadership when software can build itself | Karri Saarinen (Lenny & Friends Summit, San Francisco, 10 September 2026)

Karri Saarinen · 17m · youtube.com ↗

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Our reading
An organization should not become a software factory that outsources the work and thinking and focuses only on efficient output, because the output is not the product.

Their wordsDon't become a software factory where you out like outsource all the work and thinking to somewhere else and like just focus on like how efficient can the output be because the output is not the product.
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Our reading
Making products produces two things: the product and the learning.

Their wordsSo making products produces two things. The the product and the learning.
3 min later
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A company that does not learn from the work it does would probably eventually lose its advantage.

Their wordseventually if you don't learn from the work you do I think eventually you would lose the advantage of what you have currently in your in your space or in your company
2 min later
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Our reading
People often seem to focus on what AI can execute and not on what it can teach them.

Their wordsSo a lot of times people I think focus on what AI can do what it can execute but not what AI can teach you.
2 min later
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Our reading
Working alone with agents may be efficient, but it means people stop learning from each other.

Their wordsa lot of people are working alone with their agents building things and I think it's efficient but then there's also the problems like we not learning from each other anymore
2 min later
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Our reading
If colleagues seeing a feature for the first time are confused, users are likely confused too.

Their wordsSo they if they are confused it's likely that the the users are confused too.
3 min later
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Our reading
More of the known, repeatable work that teaches little should be automated.

Their wordswe should automate more of the known things like the things that are repeatable and maybe are not that impactful. It's not something we can learn a lot from.
1 min later
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Our reading
Intuition is not a magical force but something learned while working and listening to customers.

Their wordsintuition is not some like magical force that like and Star Wars or something that it's happens to you. It it is something that you have learned while working on something or listening to customers or something.
1 min later
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Our reading
The better the context and understanding of the people making decisions, the better the products probably are.

Their wordsthe better context those people have and like better understanding they have about the what they're supposed to do I think the products are better
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Our reading
Hiring people is the first step in building great products.

Their wordsat linear I always thought that hiring people is the first step building great products