Lenny's Newsletter surveyed its members-only Slack community and surfaced five operational questions practitioners are actually arguing about right now: which AI cold outreach tool wins, whether QA roles survive into 2026, how AI is reshaping design workflows, what advice holds for college students targeting product management, and more.
The value here is not the conclusions. It is the source: working PMs, designers, and engineers debating tools and career strategy in real time, not analysts writing post-mortems. The AI cold outreach comparison alone names specific apps and use cases that most roundups ignore.
Read the full piece for the QA discussion. The question of whether dedicated quality assurance is still a distinct function in AI-assisted development is the sharpest edge in this edition, and the community answer is not what you expect.
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