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," emphasizing the importance of AI fluency, embracing AI in existing processes, and using AI to drive growth. She highlights the rise of code-native interfaces over GUIs and the emergence of an "agentic society" where AI agents play a significant role in workflows and organizational structures. Asha shares insights on building successful AI products, the changing roles of builders, and the significance of post-training and reinforcement learning. She also touches on the importance of data residency, reliability, and privacy in AI platforms, and shares a leadership lesson learned from Satya Nadella about the power of optimism.