Anshumani Ruddra
@baboonzero
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Tinkerer. Fixer. Product Builder. Payments at Google (India and APAC lead). https://t.co/thpkyWHMga if you want to reach out to me.
Singapore
Joined February 2010
A new experiment - writing an essay and augmenting it with infographics and slides (produced using @NotebookLM) to get a tricky concept across to the reader: https://t.co/oO4DidOFWL This is an essay on cheating, Kirk, and AI misalignment based on the great research done by
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I have spoken more words to @WisprFlow this last week than any other human. This despite the fact that I currently only use it on my personal laptop (Cursor and Replit). If they released an Android app - my personal workflows would never be the same. @tankots - this would be such
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For those of you who like exploring and learning about art - I've created a simple web app that connects to the Art Institute of Chicago's open APIs (they have 50K open source images). You can expand and see any image, read details about it, search for specific painters or
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Browse and explore thousands of artworks from the Art Institute of Chicago. Search by style, artist, or keyword.
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All you wanted was to publish a multimedia rich essay (pdf slide embeds, lightbox for larger images, audio and video with text). Now you are building your own CMS admin interface and trying to host an essay on netlify! There goes the weekend in another Quixotic pursuit.
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The @NotebookLM team has been absolutely cooking with slide decks and infographics using Nano Banana Pro. Turned my humdrum resume into this really cool infographic:
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What a whirlwind weekend in Bangalore at Product Unconference by The Product Folks. Thank you to everyone who participated (and the many who stood for the entirety of the one hour as there was no place to sit). I spoke about why AI evals are critical for PMs as they build new AI
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11/11 is now the biggest annual e-commerce shopping event in SEA. Was reminded of this thread that I posted back in 2019 after my first China trip. (Possibly my first viral post.)
1/ My first trip to China (Beijing and Hangzhou) was very insightful and left me in a state of euphoria. So it was important that I wait at least 10 days before putting down my impressions (to avoid recency bias).
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Most AI features fail not because of bad models, but because of bad evaluation. Production AI systems need systematic evaluation—and PMs need to understand how to spec it, measure it, and improve it. I'm running a masterclass on AI evaluations at Product Unconference by The
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This conversation with Dharmesh (who I have been a fan of for a long time) felt like opening a time capsule of my career. We spoke about the early 2010s and building for the previous tech shift (to mobile) and the lessons learnt as a result. This is probably the most in-depth
For this week's edition of The India Notes, I spoke to Anshumani (@baboonzero) about consumer behavior in gaming, entertainment, and payments. Here are some topics we spoke about.
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This was such a fun conversation. We went through a lot of AI tools to land on our list of the best tools for PMs.
Most AI tools are hype. Which one's should PMs care about? I sat down with Anshumani Ruddra, @baboonzero, to tier all the tools. Anshumani was the person to do this with. He's a GPM at Google responsible for all APAC payments and on the BLEEDING edge of AI tool use. He's the
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It's been a joy discussing @AcquiredFM's monumental ~12 hours on Google with friends and colleagues at the company. So many fantastic stories in there. Thank you for capturing this history, @gilbert and @djrosent. You'd probably get 180K listeners from within Google 🤣
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I've done my job as a dad. AoE II has been successfully introduced into the 10-year-old's life.
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From my monthly email newsletter to my colleagues: "I had perhaps never been vulnerable enough with my kiddo. In this theatre of life - he had perhaps only seen the magic on stage, but never the absolute chaos occurring in the wings. He had never seen me as a beginner - as
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In this theatre of life – my son had perhaps only seen the magic on stage, but never the absolute chaos occurring in the wings. He had never seen me as a beginner – as someone who strug…
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I saw Ryan's tweet this morning and immediately thought that Google's Opal (mini-applications through natural language descriptions and a visual workflow editor) would be the perfect tool to build a working version of a Mad Libs style AI video generator. 20 mins of messing
Has anyone built Mad Libs with gen AI video? If not, can someone please? Thanks. :)
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One of the frustrating things for kids trying to vibe code is that one-shot output doesn't account for the nuances of the idea they want to build. I wanted to teach my kiddo some product thinking through play. So: Kiddo Product Docs - for children (8 to 12 year olds) who want to
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Looks like people are deploying @PerplexityComet for some nifty use cases. Yo - send access.
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