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The Maker’s Bias: Why Your Democratized AI Strategy is Burning Tokens

Here’s a peculiar psychological shift I’ve noticed lately. The way someone evaluates an AI agent changes entirely depending on one simple factor: whether they bought it, or whether they built it. If you are a developer, you already know this phenomenon. Developers have always loved building side projects. They will spend weekends writing custom scripts to automate some tiny personal workflow. The…

How to think about AI productivity in your org

Here’s the thing. Lately, I’ve been having the same conversation on loop with colleagues and friends who run businesses. I see them looking at these massive productivity gains happening around them in the engineering departments using AI, and then they immediately try to apply those exact same expectations—those same velocity metrics—to everyone else. Marketing, Sales, Finance, Consulting... you…

Voice might finally become a thing.

As I find myself using more and more AI tools, what I also find myself feeling gravitated towards a smaller, lighter device. I just need a device I can speak into and it can speak back to me. It simply has to record what I say and save it. And then I thought, why do I even need a screen? Most of the information that I need is enough if the device speaks to me about it. Except maybe lists because I…

One thing. Really well.

Here's one thing that I was reminded of today. You don't have a product until you can do one thing really well for a set of people. And you do it so well that they fall in love with it and they can't use anything else. So if you have a product and it can do one thing really well for a certain set of people and it does it so well that they love this thing and they can't go anywhere else. Yep, then…

AI music is incredibly frustrating

I like to listen to DJ sets or mixtapes on Youtube while I am working. But lately there is so much AI music that it makes me sick. There is something about AI music that my brain recognises and it just does not feel right. As a result, I have stopped listening to any set that is less than a year old. I only listen to music and sets older than 2024. So 2024 is the year online music discovery died…

Waiting for WWDC before finally moving to Android

I have been on iOS for last 15 years or so. Never have I felt FOMO about what Android has and I have been fond of the privacy tools that iOS brings. But things have changed now. It's 2025 and iOS is falling way behind Android when it comes to a LOT of things (except maybe privacy). UI Android 10 has a full refresh of UI and I love what they have been showing so far. I know its not yet out and it…

Easy Diagrams as Code system using LLMs.

Easy Diagrams as Code system using LLMs.

AI trends in 2025

Explore the top AI trends shaping 2025, from advancements in large language models and reasoning architectures to breakthroughs in enterprise AI, robotics, and global competition.