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Newsletter writer; Angel investor at Lenny's Newsletter (ex-Airbnb).
Tools Lenny Rachitsky has publicly discussed or demonstrated using. Curated by Magpie's editorial team from podcasts, posts, and public stacks.
Lenny Rachitsky writes Lenny's Newsletter and hosts Lenny's Podcast, where he interviews around 50 founders and product leaders a year about their tools, processes, and stack. He's an angel investor and the most-read Substack in product management.
Rachitsky bundled Cursor into the Lenny's Newsletter subscriber perks alongside v0, Replit, Lovable and Bolt.new, calling them 'the hottest AI tools in the world right now'. His large-scale AI productivity survey found 'Cursor is right behind Gemini in popularity', which he framed as an unexpected finding for an engineering tool entering mainstream PM workflows.
Rachitsky frames Lovable as the prototyping market winner in his AI productivity survey, included in the Lenny's Newsletter subscriber perks bundle. His 'How to build AI product sense' essay names Lovable alongside ChatGPT and Granola as canonical consumer-grade AI interfaces founders should know.
Rachitsky promotes Claude Code as the agentic coding step-up from consumer interfaces. His 'How to build AI product sense' essay frames the most transformative habit as 'move away from consumer-grade UIs (ChatGPT, Granola, Lovable) and into more powerful AI coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code'.
move away from consumer-grade UIs (ChatGPT, Granola, Lovable) and into more powerful AI coding agents like Cursor and Claude Code
Rachitsky covers ChatGPT extensively in Lenny's Newsletter and Lenny's Podcast as the canonical consumer-AI default. He treats ChatGPT as the entry tool for PMs and operators new to AI, and his content tracks ChatGPT's evolving role in productivity workflows alongside Claude and Gemini.
Rachitsky names Granola as one of the canonical consumer-grade AI interfaces in his 'How to build AI product sense' essay. He treats Granola as the meeting-summary primitive that's earned a place in the typical PM workflow, alongside ChatGPT and Lovable.
Last researched Jul 15, 2026
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