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Advanced Guide to AI Prototyping with Sachin Rekhi (Reforge)
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- The Growth Podcast
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- Jan 26, 2026
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- 4359
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.news.aakashg.com Today’s Episode When you first start using AI prototyping tools, you get wowed. You type “create me a CRM application” and boom a fully functioning app appears in 60 seconds. But here’s the problem. It looks generic. The styling is basic. The features are vanilla. You’d never ship this to customers. This is AI slop. Sachin Rekhi was the former Head of Product at LinkedIn Sales Navigator. He’s now teaching thousands of PMs at Reforge how to master AI prototyping. ---- Brought to you by - Reforge : Get 1 month free of Reforge Build (the AI prototyping tool built for PMs) with code BUILD ---- Key Takeaways: 1. Product shaping changes everything - Anthropic builds multiple prototypes for every problem, launches internally, sees what people use, then productionizes winners. This used to only be possible at Apple with massive labs. 2. AI slop is real - Type "create a CRM" and you get generic styling, vanilla features, basic scenarios. Looks magical but you'd never ship it. The challenge is going from slop to production-grade prototypes. 3. The 15-skill mastery ladder - Apprentice level: prompting, editing, design consistency. Journeyman: versioning, debugging, diverging. Master: functional prototyping, product shaping, analytics integration. 4. Design consistency starts with baselining - Take screenshot of your product. Recreate it. Iterate until perfect. Save as template. Now every prototype inherits your design system automatically. 5. Diverging is the secret weapon - Generate 4 design variants instead of 1. Magic Patterns has this built in. Or use multiple tools to get 8 options. Evaluate alternatives like designers do. 6. Functional prototypes unlock real validation - Integrate OpenAI API…