People often ask me how Lean Analytics changes in an AI world. It’s something I’m thinking about a lot, because things are happening so quickly.
My co-author, Alistair Croll and I have been jamming on this too. He’s thinking way further ahead than me (as is always the case!) but we’re seeing the same things: the cost of building has collapsed, models drift under your feet, and your “users” might not be human at all.
The short version: the core Lean Analytics frameworks survive. Many of the specific metrics you were taught to obsess over need a rewrite. Some have been replaced entirely.
This post is about how to tell them apart. Fair warning, it’s a long one. We’re going to cover what still works (fast), what’s changing at the product metric level (in detail), what’s changing at the business model level (where some of the real damage is happening), and what’s coming next (more speculative, but important).
