👋 Hey, I’m Lenny and welcome to
a 🔒 subscriber-only edition 🔒 of my weekly newsletter. Each week I tackle
reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career.
Are PMs
actually using ChatGPT/GPT-4 for getting real work done, and if so, how?
Let this idea sink in:
Though I don’t believe PMs will be displaced by GPT-4/5/6/n, I
do believe that, as with most knowledge work, learning to work alongside AI will quickly become table stakes. Just like Grammarly became for writing, Copilot for engineers, and Firefly, Runway, Midjourney, and others are becoming for designers. It’s
scary and confusing, but also exciting. When was the last time there was a transformative new tool for product management?
Never?
Importantly, as Dan Shipper suggested in
his recent guest post on building the Lenny Chatbot,
“the best way to prepare for this fast-approaching future is to dive in and get your hands
dirty.” So to help you roll up your sleeves and get started, I polled Twitter for concrete examples of how PMs are already
using ChatGPT day-to-day. Honestly, I was shocked by how common (and useful) it has already become for people. Below, I’ve
collected a dozen of my favorite use cases of how you can integrate ChatGPT into your work today—with actual prompts you can
play with.
To follow along,
go sign up for ChatGPT (seriously, go do that now), and try at
least one prompt you find below. Even if you don’t find it useful today, it’ll plant a seed.
Also, a pro tip: You can ask ChatGPT for advice on how to
best phrase your prompt. It’s very meta and very cool.
For example:
Here’s what it
suggested when I did this:
The future is coming fast.
Synthesize survey results:
Find feature ideas and
bugs from app store reviews:
Extract insights from
raw usage metrics:
Do sensitivity analysis:
Come up with critical questions your audience may
ask:
Identify gaps and hidden assumptions in your
thinking:
Highlight edge cases
and counterarguments: