How 80,000 companies build with AI: products as organisms, the death of org charts, and why agents will outnumber employees by 2026 | Asha Sharma (CVP of AI Platform at Microsoft)

In this episode of Lenny's Podcast, Asha Sharma, Chief Vice President of Product for Microsoft's AI Platform, discusses the shift from "product as artifact" to "product as organism," where AI-driven products evolve and improve with user interaction. She highlights the importance of post-training models, code-native interfaces, and the rise of an "agentic society" where AI agents enhance productivity and reshape organizational structures. Asha shares insights on building successful AI products, emphasizing the need for AI fluency across organizations, focusing on loops rather than lanes, and adapting to the rapidly changing AI landscape. She also touches on the future of work, the role of reinforcement learning, and the ethical considerations of AI, drawing from her experiences at Microsoft, Instacart, and Meta, as well as lessons learned from Satya Nadella.