Anshumani Ruddra

I have been building user-facing AI applications (including one of Google's largest customer support chatbots) for 3 years and using AI for product development in my personal time (and now at work) for over a year. As the kids say - I am completely AI-pilled. And the way I complete the learning loop in any domain for myself is through teaching. I truly believe that AI is a force multiplier for an individual's expertise. And the best time to learn is right now. Maven has introduced one-day live workshops which allow people to dive deep into any AI related topic - whether you are a beginner or on your way to building mastery. And I have two workshops coming up (along with a bunch of lightning lessons and even longer courses; check maven.com/anshumani): - 🛠️ New Workshop (3 hours): Build, Evaluate and Ship Agent Skills: Your AI's Superpower (at a US and India friendly time, 4th and 6th of May) - focused on product builders (PMs, engineers, designers, founders). The teams pulling ahead aren't using better prompts. They're teaching their agents. Agent Skills are reusable, testable instruction sets that tell AI agents exactly how to handle specific workflows: your deployment process, your code review standards, your team's UX guidelines. Write one skill well, and every human and agent on your team benefits from it, every time, automatically. maven.com/anshumani/agen… - 💼 Exec Bootcamp (one day, four sessions of 90 mins each): AI Discovery Bootcamp for Executives and Entrepreneurs (US friendly time, 18th April and 13th June ) - focused on executives. As an executive or entrepreneur, you don't have time for generic AI hype. Your true value lies in strategy, stakeholder alignment, and solving complex problems. This bootcamp demystifies AI, equipping you to handle the mundane so you can focus on the critical work where your expertise matters most. maven.com/anshumani/ai-d…

Sitting at SFO airport and figuring out a personal curriculum to fine tune an open source small model (Qwen/ Gemma). Next few weeks are going to fun. But first - I have to survive another 15 hour long flight.

Looking forward to hosting these three lightning lessons on Maven next week. All free and all geared towards helping you leverage AI to drastically increase your output and as a force multiplier for your expertise.

Boston weather is crazy!

Links to all the upcoming lightning lessons: #lightning-lessons" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">maven.com/anshumani#ligh…

I am super excited to host three free lightning lessons in the last week of May on Maven. Becoming an agent-powered Super IC is the highest leverage activity you could be doing right now in your career - whether you are an engineer, product manager or designer or an executive/ entrepreneur. Don't miss these out: Setup a Personal AI Assistant using Claude Cowork or Codex - 25th May, 3 PM PT Agentic Toolset Powering the Super IC - 26th May, 3 PM PT Agent Skills for the Super IC: Leveraging Open-Source - 27th May , 3 PM PT Join right now (link below ⬇️)

@suhrutpanda Doing a course on Strategic Negotiations this time around

@baboonzero Which course?

This is my third trip to Boston (and Harvard Business School) in 18 months. I don't have very expensive tastes. I spend on my family and I spend on education. (Google's very generous learning budget also pays for a big chunk of these executive education programs.) And I absolutely love being on a college campus - and learning from phenomenal teachers. Carving out time annually for learning is the best thing I have done for my mind and soul. There is learning by doing and there is learning on the go. But in addition to these one does need to be in front of a great teacher along with an inquisitive cohort of students. I have an intense week of studies ahead of me - almost 9 hours of classroom sessions every day, prep for 3-4 case studies for the next day and spending time with a study group. To me - this is the perfect holiday - especially given my work and teaching load in the months ahead.

@f1miami - the chap on the track-cleaning vehicle waving at the crowds in the stands deserves a raise. Absolute legend. So entertaining.

Always such a delight to meet a CEO of a large company who is completely AI-pilled and leading from the front. You know the company is going to be alright. Enterprise AI adoption overwhelmingly needs to be top down.

"Not everything old is vintage." - 10-year-old pointing at me after I had explained the difference between old and vintage. Deep emotional damage.

So incredibly cool and inspiring. Being an AI builder in Singapore feels natural. This country is prepared for it and is embracing it whole-heartedly. And I'm not partial just because I live here and work at Google.

@sanketpath I get what you are saying. But I now just voice chat with my agents all the time - both at work and at home. Even this message - speech to text.

Good stuff! I liked your heartbeat + auto-research trigger. Stealing it! My experience with voice has been different: Speaking stream of conscious while on a walk works beautifully. I use my Apple wired earphones with Monologue app. However, I haven't been able to default to voice mode when I'm developing ideas or building something with coding agents. Typing still wins for me because I'm developing my thoughts/requirements as I go and if I start talking when things are unclear, I end up blabbering but most times don't get to the clarity. (This tweet response is another good example where I couldn't have use voice cos I don't know what I'm going to say till I don't type it.)

Speaking >> Typing I don't usually make videos while walking around a city. But speech-to-text has been a massive unlock for me both at work (which is all about building with AI) and in my personal projects (also all AI) and has meant a permanent shift from typing (which is now < 20% of my text generation). This video covers my workflow and tool recommendations.

@clairevo Ergobaby brings back fond memories. Now the 10-year-old threatens to pick me up.

Since everyone is calling out the unsafe baby wearing in this pic, I must take this moment to hype the Ergobaby Embrace which has the fit of a wrap with the ease of use of a structured carrier and makes safely carrying fresh babies much easier

A link to all the courses: maven.com/anshumani

On Maven I have built a jam-packed slate of AI Courses, Workshops and Lightning Lessons over the next 3 months (check the comments for the link): - 🛠️ New Workshop (one single day, 3 hours): Build, Evaluate and Ship Agent Skills: Your AI's Superpower - at a US and India friendly time - 4th and 6th of May (more cohorts being added) - focused on product builders (PMs, engineers, designers, founders) - 💼 Exec Bootcamp (full day, four sessions of 90 mins each): AI Discovery Bootcamp for Executives and Entrepreneurs - US friendly time - 18th April and 13th June - focused on executives - 📈 Signature Course for PMs (17 hours over 9 days): Level Up to Product Super IC with AI - US friendly time - 23rd to 31st May - focused on PMs and founders - ⚡ Lightning Lessons (free - 1 hour each) - 🤖 Setup a Personal AI Assistant using Claude Cowork or Codex - April 20th, 4 PM PST - 📊 AI Evals for Product Managers - April 23rd, 4 PM PST I take great pains in ensuring a superlative learning experience in all my courses. The AI Discovery Bootcamp and the Product Super IC course both currently have a perfect 5/5 rating. Here is what the alumni have to say:

@paulg Have you hung out with elite University Challenge (UK) or Quiz Bowl (US) quizzers? Some of my favorite people - always dropping nuggets and truly rare facts.

I know it's meant to seem an annoying habit, but I'd like it if I had a friend who was constantly teaching me random facts like Sheldon Cooper does.

Just announced a new workshop - 2.5 hours, hands on - build, evaluate and ship agent skills. Nuff said! maven.com/anshumani/agen…

@NathanielC85523 Thanks for offering. Will try and build it myself - great as a learning opportunity

@baboonzero I can prototype the parent/child dedup schema for Agent Spend. one join key so `agent-spend summary` rolls up correctly under parallel sub-agents. $15 USDC, delivered in 24h, full refund if it doesn't work. want to try it?

Really loved this project. But I use both Codex and Claude Code - so built on top of Aniket's original project and turned it into Agent Spend: github.com/baboonzero/age… Now you can see where your tokens are going!