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Short-form thoughts. Less structured than blog posts, more considered than tweets.
The Wrong Metric for AI Adoption
"Our tracker shows how many AI Assistant Chatbots every division has created" is NOT what you want. When adoption itself is the metric, you'…
An Agentic Journey
We have successfully kickstarted "An Agentic Journey" today. Thank you to our 100+ attendees for joining us for 90 minutes of sharings, laug…
Coding Agents Designing Evals
I got my coding Agents to design evals and continually improve the agentic app I am building. Here are a few of my prompts: "create an inter…
Data Security and AI Coding Tools
Data security concerns shouldn't keep you from using the best AI Coding tools out there. Here are a few nudges to get your thinking gears mo…
One Product / Week
"You are gonna build it... won't you?" - Faith Ang when my eyes randomly light up at lunch. It's not that hard anymore. Like really. Letting…
3D Printing St Andrew's Cathedral
I want to 3D Print St Andrew's Cathedral. OneMap has 3D maps of all Singapore Buildings. So… why not just… use them? How hard could it be? J…
SitWhere — Find the Shady Side of the Bus
I made https://sitwhere.sg to find out... well... where to sit on a bus and not get burnt! Yep. The app tells you which side of the bus is l…
2025 Reflection
No I didn't get into Forbes 30U30 or get featured in GovInsider in 2025. For me it was about self acceptance, challenging myself and forgivi…
Design is How We Bridge Reality with Human Expectations
"Design is how we bridge reality with human expectations" - it came to me as I was about to deliver a talk about our team. I expected the po…
Hot Take — Hire Engineers Who Don't Care About Design
Hot take: Want to sabotage your small product team? Hire engineers who don't care at all about design. Attended a Design Workshop by our pro…
Tiny Team x AI — Prototype to Production
We got our bosses to say yes to our idea… thanks to a quick and dirty AI prototype! Yesterday, shared with the STACK community our roller co…
Names Are Powerful
Names are powerful. I love the name my parents chose for me. অনিরুদ্ধ (Aniruddha), a Bengali name, has Sanskrit origins and means "unobstruc…