Practitioners in Lenny's paid Slack community are using AI to coach youth basketball, debating Jira versus Linear for engineering workflow, and building internal business cases for platform teams. These are not theoretical discussions. These are working professionals reporting what is and is not working in production environments.
The Jira versus Linear debate alone is worth the price of entry. Both tools have distinct tradeoffs around speed, customization, and engineering culture fit, and the community surfaces specific reasons teams switch in each direction. The platform team business case thread is equally concrete: it addresses how to justify headcount and tooling investment to leadership using metrics that finance and product will actually accept.
The full thread also covers favorite AI use cases across product, engineering, and operations roles. Read it to see which use cases have real consensus behind them and which are still speculative. The signal-to-noise ratio here is higher than most AI discourse because the people reporting results are accountable to their teams.
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