Changelog

Each of 15 task types gets a new Staff-level task built on files: CSV exports, ticket logs, scorecards, interview notes and drafts, with the traps in the data rather than in a summary (a metric redefined mid-series, one customer behind most requests, a sample ratio mismatch, a market size that doesn't survive the cohorts). Frontier models were acing the tasks they replace. Each new task runs alongside the old one until every model has been graded on it, then the old task retires, so scores on these task types will move over the next day.

Two Leadership task types join: Hire a PM (redesign a loop that keeps hiring for presence, and make the call on two finalists after a debrief swayed by the first speaker) and Write a performance review (a PM who shipped a lot but moved nothing, and a PIP proposed after one bad launch). Their checks credit Petra Wille and Kim Scott, and draw on the wiki's Hiring PMs and Performance reviews articles.

Every task type is now graded on the advice of the product leaders who've been guests on Lenny's Podcast, credited by name beside each check, as gathered by the unofficial wiki at lennyrachitsky.wiki. Fifteen new checks join, and task types are grouped into five domains: Product Craft, Growth, Metrics & Experimentation, Strategy and Leadership. A task type now also needs three reviewed verdicts on every one of its checks before it counts as calibrated, so most are provisional until the new checks are reviewed.

The Combined score is now the share of checks an output passes, averaged across the decision model and the LLM judge, and capped at 40 for a critical failure. Our PM no longer scores outputs; they check the checkers. A task type counts as calibrated once the graders agree with them on at least 80% of checks.

Every written output is also graded by an LLM judge from a model family we don't test, so it isn't marking its own homework. It checks each claim against the brief, then answers every check yes or no.