AI tools are overdelivering: results from our large-scale AI productivity survey

In this episode of Lenny's Reads, Lenny Rachitsky shares insights from an independent survey, conducted with Noam Segal, on the impact of AI on tech worker productivity. The survey, involving 1,750 respondents across various roles like product managers, engineers, designers, and founders, reveals that AI is generally exceeding expectations, saving significant time, and improving work quality. Founders are deriving the most benefit, using AI for strategic thinking, while designers are seeing the least. Engineers are leveraging AI for coding but seek more support in documentation and testing. The episode also explores tool preferences, with ChatGPT dominating for most roles except engineering, where tools like Cursor and Claude Code are popular. The discussion further highlights opportunities for AI to enhance user research for PMs, prototyping for PMs and designers, and strategic collaboration for founders. The episode concludes by pinpointing which AI tools have achieved product market fit, noting ChatGPT's dominance but also the rise of specialized tools like Cursor among engineers.