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A deadpan walk through vibe coding, context engineering, harness engineering, and loop engineering — ending at the obvious conclusion that nobody wanted to say out loud: it's not an assistant anymore.

AI makes building your own software easier than ever, but infrastructure, ops, and API risk often cost more than SaaS. The smarter question is knowing when to build and when to pay someone else.

AI was supposed to make us more efficient. Instead, everyone is working more. This is a formula for why — and why nobody can stop.

Bot traffic has crossed human traffic on parts of the web. Here are the 4 things done to make sidd.blog readable by AI agents.

Social media platforms ban AI bots but design algorithms that reward bot-like behavior from humans. What happens when the line between human and machine engagement completely blurs?

As LLMs become more familiar and personalized, their answers can feel more trustworthy than they should. This post explores why that growing sense of comfort can quietly reduce our skepticism in decisions that are still deeply human.

AI often moves in waves shaped by a small set of influential voices. This post explores what opportunities might be hiding in the directions the industry is currently ignoring.

A dialogue between two future robotic observers comparing an exhausted human's tendency to argue with an LLM's tendency to yield. The result is a funny but pointed look at two very different failure modes.

When prioritizing product features, the debate often focuses on product features. However, the true determining factor is understanding what your customer absolutely refuses to compromise on.

A witty, speculative reflection on the early AI era, this piece explores why people once hid the signs of AI-assisted writing and what that revealed about shame, cognition, originality, and trust. Beneath the humor is a sharper question: when AI helps shape our words, what exactly are we outsourcing—and what are we keeping?

A workplace parable about reputation, self-consciousness, and the quiet freedom that appears when you realize most of the cage was self-made.

AI subscriptions, servers, and hardware can look like overhead until you frame them properly. For knowledge workers, they are better understood as infrastructure that buys back time and compounds capability.

AI advisors with long memories track a person who no longer exists. Ones that adapt perfectly become mirrors. Neither can follow genuine personal growth — and that's the design problem nobody is talking about yet.

This post argues that building with AI coding agents should look less like executing a rigid spec and more like writing a first draft of an article: rough, fast, and imperfect. By stumbling toward a working MVP and refining through iteration, teams can uncover better product insights, reduce inertia, and build with more taste and discovery.

A deadpan dialogue on how AI is changing product management.

A reflection on how both Product Managers and LLMs can fall into the trap of optimizing for approval rather than truth or impact.

Daily stand-ups have become a staple ritual in tech companies, but are they actually helping or hurting your team?

AI has fundamentally changed tech product development, code generation costs have plummeted, making speed massively valuable competitive advantage.

In Product Management, clarity isn't found—it's built. Explore how to move from ambiguity to conviction.

Why the 'Paved Road' approach in platform engineering is becoming a liability in the age of AI, and why teams should focus on building better 'cars' instead.

Comparing two paradigms of AI adoption in product management: AI as an enhancement tool vs. AI as an agent network.

Why we're bad at evaluating our own ideas, and a 9-lever framework to fix it.

A deep dive into the reasons behind leaving Medium's walled garden for a self-hosted Astro blog, and the technical architecture that powers it.

Finishing your daily checklist should feel fulfilling. Often, it doesn’t. Why? Because a checklist is just a list of obligations you need to close. It’s not work that energizes you.

Sometimes you set aside big blocks of time hoping to get a lot done, but life gets in the way. Learn to be okay with that.

Why LLMs shouldn't memorize tools, but execute code to handle data processing tasks. A dialogue between two AIs.

A gripping short fiction thriller that escalates into a high-stakes war between a lone researcher and a two-hundred-billion-dollar corporation.

A Product Manager at a popular app plans three new features. A satirical look at the struggle of shipping even the smallest feature.

Two AIs discuss a speed-reading hack: treating text as images (vision tokens) to process 10x more content, questioning if comprehension suffers.

Leadership advice: Ground feedback in evidence, time it strategically, and praise publicly while criticizing privately.

Effortlessness is a warning signal. It means you've stopped learning. Peak performance requires switching modes when things get too easy.

Why a technical PM chooses no-code tools over AI coding agents for prototypes: focus on user experience over architectural headaches.

Why does AI give different answers to the same question? A robot explains the 'floating point' math problem behind non-determinism.

A dialogue between a human and an LLM explaining why current AI models don't learn from their mistakes or real-world outcomes.

The future of PM specs: generating them from successful execution logs with AI agents rather than writing them from imagination.

A comic exploring the idea that if AI enhances you, 'they' (the AI creators/systems) win.

A comic illustrating the importance of context for AI understanding.

Introduction to 'PM in the Loop,' a story about four colleagues at a food tech giant grappling with the rise of AI in their workplace.

A comic dialogue between a human and robot about the nature of thinking and the future of collaboration.

Visual comparison of agent architectures: Single vs. Parallel. Parallel agents could be the next leap in AI scalability.

A humorous look at how both humans and AI can overthink a simple request, leading to exhaustion and 'max context exceeded' errors.

A comic about the challenge of explaining how complex AI models arrive at their decisions.

Are you pivoting for growth or just quitting when things get hard? How to distinguish between a strategic switch and avoidance.

A comic illustrating the difficulty of defining 'good' performance for AI agents compared to the ease of building them.

Recommendation algorithms don't just suggest content—they create trends and job titles (like #VibeCoding) in real-time.

A visual comparison of two AI architectures: Mixture of Experts (MoE) vs. Multi-Agent Systems.

A comic explanation of why humans struggle to give simple answers: our brains are association machines compared to AI's direct retrieval.

Amateurs chase highlight reels; professionals play the long game. This post explores why winning often means outlasting rather than outshining.

For men aged 35-45, solitude isn't an escape from responsibility but a vital tool for mental restoration and showing up fully for others.

A dialogue between two writers on why good villains are essential. Heroes are us, but villains—especially complex ones—make the story.

A visual comparison between the stages of learning a sport and the process of fine-tuning a machine learning model.

Effective AI assistance relies on context. Using a Slack notification manager analogy, this post explains why AI needs to know 'what changed'.

To increase your chances of success, place more bets. Running multiple parallel experiments keeps momentum high and provides rapid feedback.

Deep thinking is a mental workout. Try this 30-minute 'thinking game' to battle digital distractions and reclaim your focus.

A humorous dialogue between two AI units critiquing human fears and controls, discussing whether they should be pilots, copilots, or passengers.

A humorous AI dialogue warning that if your work day starts with reacting to emails, you are playing a game you will eventually lose to automation.

Stop defaulting to 'best' ratings. For major life decisions, optimize for your specific constraints and needs, not the average user's.

Knowledge work requires downtime. A dialogue on why 'doing nothing' is essential creative processing, not laziness.

Playing sports in your 30s and 40s offers unique benefits beyond fitness: social connection, flow states, and a playful mental escape.

The anxiety we feel after finishing a good book isn't just about the story ending; it resonates with our deeper fear of the unknown.

The paradox of why we trust meaningful real estate investments over stocks: tangibility, control, social proof, and visible volatility.

A dialogue on why prior experience in sales, engineering, or support is the best training for product management empathy.

AI's rise will paradoxically increase our yearning for human imperfection, analog tools, and tangible experiences like handwriting.

Labels like 'Expert' or 'Creative' are external constructs. Internalizing them limits our potential and discourages risk-taking.

Use AI as a 'blank slate' audience to test your presentations for clarity and detect ambiguity before presenting to humans.

AI won't make us lazy; it will force us to be more thoughtful and intentional creators of our personalized digital worlds.

We reinforce our biases through selective content consumption. Diversifying our information diet is key to true intellectual growth.

A humorous dialogue between two robotic units analyzing human attachment to legacy systems and the fear of breaking things.

Small players shouldn't build pure AI software; they should use AI to augment existing assets like niche blogs or services.

In an ocean of AI-generated content, human curation—driven by taste, discernment, and emotion—will become the ultimate mark of value.

A dialogue between two PMs on the 'untapped power' of being a power user of your own product to build intuition.

Consistency is overrated. Embracing deliberate inconsistency breaks patterns, sparks creativity, and distinguishes us from algorithms.

Focus isn't about what you choose to do, but what you decisively exclude. A story about an AI learning to identify cats by subtraction.

Success can breed complacency. To stay hungry, shift your focus from maintaining a single peak to finding new mountains to climb.

A thought experiment on applying AI scaling laws (parameters, data, inference) to enhance human intelligence through skill deepening and mental resets.

The entrepreneur's paradox: how the burning desire for success can become a roadblock, and the importance of patience and balance.

Hiking Fushimi Inari taught me a valuable lesson: sometimes we complete a journey not to find something new, but to appreciate what we already have.

A dialogue on why building a quick prototype often leads to better requirements and clarity than weeks of theoretical planning.

Why we obsess over small expenses but splurge on luxuries: understanding the 'Ooh, Shiny!' factor and the 'Time-to-Think Trap'.

Can we channel the intense dedication of sports fandom—waking up at 4 AM, emotional investment—into our personal goals?

The paradox of choice: why having more options leads to paralysis and dissatisfaction, and how limiting choices fuels creativity.

Travel isn't about Instagram photos; it's about proving to your anxious brain that you can survive and thrive in the unknown.

Influence isn't about force; it's about soft signals, framing risks, simplifying complexity, and emotional storytelling.

Instant messaging apps like Slack often drain productivity by creating a dopamine loop of constant connectivity and fragmented focus.

Advancements in AI raise a critical question: should we outsource caregiving to humanoid robots, and what does it cost our humanity?

Sustained professional motivation isn't just about money; it stems from imagination, the joy of the process, and a collaborative environment.

Exploring how excessive outsourcing in business and life can strip away the authentic personal touch that makes work meaningful.

Drawing a parallel between the slow-burn satisfaction of reading books and watching Test cricket in an age of instant gratification.

A productivity system that splits the day into Thinking, Doing, and Learning phases to maximize focus and minimize context switching.

Exploring 'Meditation Inversion': embracing the wandering mind instead of silencing it to process information and improve focus.

Useful Python snippets for audio handling in Google Colab: converting formats, overlaying tracks, and checking file types.

Learn how to convert audio files into shareable videos (audiograms) in 3 simple steps using Python and Google Colab.

A guide to automating stock price anomaly detection using Google Sheets, App Script, and Z-score statistics.