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, host Lenny interviews Asha Sharma, Chief Vice President of Product for Microsoft's AI Platform, about the evolving landscape of AI and its impact on product development and organizational structures. Asha shares insights on the shift from "product as artifact" to "product as organism," emphasizing the importance of continuous learning and adaptation in AI products. She discusses the rise of code-native interfaces, the coming "agentic society," and the changing roles of builders in the AI era, highlighting the need for AI fluency and a focus on the "loop" rather than the "lane." Asha also touches on the challenges of planning in a rapidly changing AI environment and shares her leadership lessons from Satya Nadella, emphasizing the power of optimism. The episode further explores the increasing importance of post-training and reinforcement learning in model development.