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Tara Seshan

Heard on Lenny's Podcast, on the record there about which kinds of writing she automates with AI models and which kind, writing as thinking, she refuses to hand over.

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“Writing as reporting, I happily automate, or I use the models all the time to make that as simple as it can be. But writing as thinking is something I never will automate.” — Tara Seshan, Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Seshan splits her work writing in two: writing as reporting, meaning status updates and launch plans, and writing as thinking, meaning briefs that argue for a product or a change of direction. She hands the first kind to the models and refuses to hand over the second. She adds that most people paint with too broad a brush in either direction, insisting they never use models for writing or always do.

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · 2026-08-30 Context → Listen →

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