Ashish Sinha

the most underrated hire right now is a great product person. when i say product person i'm def not talking about a product manager. perhaps i think there has to be somewhat of a new role. i don't have a good name for it yet but maybe something like "product thinker".. someone with an intuitive grasp of the product as it exists, where it's soft, where it sings, & how to iterate it toward something even sharper. in some sense, this person has to cohesively hold in their head where this product should be 2 years from now & work backwards from that. i say this cuz when building was hard, engineering was the bottleneck & the status hierarchy often reflected that. building is no longer hard. which means the variance in outcomes has shifted almost entirely to judgment on what to build, how to sequence it, & how to talk about it. & the story matters as much as the thing. internally, it organizes the team around a shared model of why. externally, it shapes the interpretive frame users bring to their first experience. you can't retrofit narrative onto a product & expect it to land, it has to be load bearing from the start. the rarest version of this person sits at the intersection of culture & deep technology. someone genuinely bilingual. they know what's technically possible & they know which cultural currents are real vs. ephemeral. that combo is what separates products that feel inevitable from products that feel assembled. before ppl clap back with this person has always been valuable, i know.. i am just saying now they might be the most *important* person in the room. their value compounds like never before.

The entire SaaS industry is building software for a customer that is about to go extinct. The human buyer. Insight Partners co-founder Jerry Murdock just exposed the fatal architectural flaw in every incumbent tech company’s business model. Your dashboards. Your UI. Your enterprise sales motion. Your human-in-the-loop workflows. All of it was engineered for a buyer that is disappearing in real time. Murdock: “If you’re not making your software for autonomous agents today, you’re going to be challenged in the future. Maybe it’s six months, maybe a year, maybe 18 months, but you’re going to be severely challenged if you still think human beings are going to buy your software.” Not disrupted. Not pressured. Structurally eliminated. For two decades, software was built around the cognitive limits of human biology. Dropdowns, dashboards, and notifications existed because the human brain needed them to navigate digital space. An autonomous agent needs none of that. It doesn’t browse your product page. It doesn’t sit through your demo. It doesn’t respond to your sales email. It doesn’t care how clean your UI is. It just executes. The agentic era runs on machine-to-machine infrastructure. Frictionless. Autonomous. No human in the loop. No patience for friction you built for a species it replaced. The window is six to eighteen months. The builders who survive will tear out the entire human interface layer and replace it with pure, unthrottled infrastructure that agents can consume at full speed. Everyone else will spend those eighteen months perfecting a dashboard that no one is ever going to log into again.

An FSSAI raid at a Haldiram warehouse in Lucknow reportedly found around 1.1 quintal of expired sweets. A few days earlier, expired products and labelling violations were also reported at a Haldiram outlet in Hyderabad. If such issues are being flagged even at well-known branded sweet outlets, what are people supposed to trust anymore?