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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 3h

Think 'decade of agents,' not 'year of agents.'

Sustainable progress beats hype.

We're just getting started.

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Andrej Karpathy — “We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”

The Andrej Karpathy episode. During this interview, Andrej explains why reinforcement learning is terrible (but everything else is much worse), why AGI will just blend into the previous ~2.5 centuries of 2% GDP growth, why self driving took so long to crack, and what he sees as the future of educati

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 19h

PMs: Embrace curiosity and ask “dumb” questions without ego.

Avoiding assumptions uncovers valuable insights and leads to better decisions.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 1d

Seek to understand the “why” behind user and stakeholder requests. Dig deep with questions to clarify the underlying problem before jumping to solutions.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 4d

Goodhart's Law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Both humans and AI are remarkably good at finding the easiest path to reward

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 5d

Hill climbing metrics in ML: Imagine your model is a hiker trying to reach the peak.

Each step upward = better performance.

The metric is your altitude gauge, which tells you if you're climbing or sliding.

#AI

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 7d

Nuggets of wisdom from Reddit

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#ProductManagement #Leadership

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 7d

Can't the AI just do the eval?

No, you need a manual, contextual review for product quality at first.

Why AI evals are the hottest new skill for product builders | Hamel Husain & Shreya Shankar

Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar teach the world’s most popular course on AI evals and have trained over 2,000 PMs and engineers (including many teams at OpenAI and Anthropic). In this conversation, they demystify the process of developing effective evals, walk through real examples, and share practi

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 8d

Innovation means nothing without delivery

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 8d

Lake shimmering in the morning sun

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 8d

Turns out LLMs are great at toy databases but struggle when you throw actual messy data at them.

The gap? Understanding actual data values, not just table schemas. We're not quite ready to fire the data team yet 📊

#AI #MachineLearning

BIRD-bench

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 9d

The AI didn't fail. It did exactly what LLMs do, generate plausible-sounding text.

Deloitte failed by not verifying anything before hitting send on a government contract.

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Deloitte to partially refund Australian government for report with apparent AI-generated errors

Deloitte Australia will partially refund the Australian government for a report filled with apparent AI-generated errors.

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 10d

Is Product Management dying?

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The Death of Product Management

The Product Manager (PM) role has gained prominence in recent years as companies have embraced Agile methodologies to drive innovation and…

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 10d

New PM Superpower: Human + AI Collaboration

1️⃣ Let AI surface patterns, then apply human judgment to interpret them
2️⃣ Have AI generate options, then use creativity to synthesize something better
3️⃣ Use empathy to ask questions AI can't formulate, then use AI to find answers at scale

#AI

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 11d

The best PMs are described as the most trusted team members, not the most authoritative.

#ProductManagement

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 11d

AI TRiSM (trust, risk, and security management for AI) will drive responsible use of AI across industries.

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Gartner Hype Cycle Identifies Top AI Innovations in 2025

AI agents and AI-ready data are the two fastest advancing technologies on the 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, according to Gartner #GartnerSYM #GartnerIT

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 11d

When AI can handle analysis, documentation, and execution, the PM's unique value becomes crystal clear: the ability to focus on the right things, envision what doesn't exist, and make wise choices in uncertain situations.

#AI #ProductManagement

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 12d

Creator skill requirements over time:

YouTube era: Personality + basic editing
iPhone era: Personality + press record
TikTok era: Just personality
AI era: Not even that, AI avatars do it for you

The barrier was always "be comfortable on camera." Now even that's gone.

#AI

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 12d

The democratization of content creation:

YouTube – Solved distribution
iPhone – Made everyone a potential filmmaker
TikTok – Proved algorithms > followers; editing for everyone
Sora – AI removes the final skill and technical barriers

Every few years, technology removes another gatekeeper.

#AI

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 12d

What is extreme co-design?

Extreme co-design means that you have to optimize the model, algorithm, system, and chip at the same time.

You have to innovate outside the box

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NVIDIA: OpenAI, Future of Compute, and the American Dream | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner

Open Source bi-weekly convo w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner on all things tech, markets, investing & capitalism. This week, Brad and Clark Tang sit down with Jensen Huang, founder & CEO of NVIDIA, for a sweeping deep dive on the new era of AI. From the $100B partnership with OpenAI to the rise of A

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 12d

Empathy isn't about having feelings; it's about using emotional intelligence to uncover truths that data can't reveal.

AI can tell you what users do.

Only humans can understand why it matters to them.

#AI #ProductManagement

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 13d

Democratization of intelligence: All tasks where you previously needed either specialized knowledge, years of experience, or the budget to hire a professional.

Now AI can get you 80-90% of the way there instantly.

#AI

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 13d

Unpopular take: "Agentic AI will replace transaction apps" misses the point.

Humans don't actually want efficiency for everything. We doom-scroll, window shop, endlessly compare flights we'll never book.

The apps that survive won't be the useful ones; they'll be the ones we irrationally enjoy. #AI

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 14d

Arora believes customer support exists because companies build bad products, and that 80-90% of customer support should be eliminated in 2-5 years through better AI-powered products, not just AI customer service

#AI #ProductManagement

No Priors | With Palo Alto Networks CEO & Former Chief Business Officer of Google Nikesh Arora

Between the future of search, the biggest threats in cybersecurity, and the jobs and platforms of tomorrow, Nikesh Arora sees one common thread connecting and transforming them all—AI. Sarah Guo and Elad Gil sit down with Nikesh Arora, CEO of cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks and former Chief B

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Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 14d

OLD: "How to reduce clicks to complete this action?"
NEW: "Should users even see this action happening?"

PM's job isn't just about optimizing user flows anymore.

It's about deciding which experiences should remain human-facing and which should become invisible AI agents

#AI

Gobi @gobiraj.bsky.social · 15d

"Companies with 'poor UI loyalty' (like travel booking) are most vulnerable to AI agent disruption because users don't care about the interface, just the transaction outcome. " - Nikesh Arora

#AI #ProductManagement

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