Aparna Chennapragada

Microsoft CPO: If you aren’t prototyping with AI, you’re doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada

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Opening
Aparna Chennapragada (00:00:00): I have a cheesy Chrome extension. Literally whenever I open a new tab, it just says, how can you use AI to do what you're going to do right now? Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:06): How do you see the future of product development being different? Aparna Chennapragada (00:00:09): If you're not prototyping and building to see what you want to build, I think you're doing it wrong....

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Low-ego framing
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:06): How do you see the f...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Aparna Chennapragada (00:04:35): Thank you, Lenny. Thanks for having me. Lenny Rachitsky (00:04:37): When I asked a lot of people that work with you, what...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ask with curiosity
Aparna Chennapragada (00:41:33): Yeah. And when you think about the solved mode, and this is again...

Turns a moment that could become critique into a question about the guest's thinking.

Low-ego framing
feels like I'm running some cron job and scripts, but if it's too terse, then I don't know if it's going in the right path, and I don't have the confidence yet. So there are all these new elements. So if you...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (01:00:42): Amazing. Aparna, thank you so much for being here. Aparna Chennapragada (01:00:45): Thank you. Lenny Rachitsky (01:00:46): Bye, everyone.

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.