Anshumani Ruddra
@baboonzero

Tinkerer. Fixer. Product Builder. Crafting Products with AI @Google Writes and builds on anshumani.com/ and teaches on: maven.com/anshumani

 Singapore
anshumani.com
Joined February 2010
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The Ubiquitous Blue

If you are currently surrounded by people (at the office, cafe, street or even home) do a quick scan. How many people are wearing something blue? Could be a hat, a t-shirt, shorts or skirts or even
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Embracing the Slop - Sturgeon's Law in the Age of AI

Right now, there is a pervasive panic that Generative AI is flooding the world with "slop". Critics (or the average unc on X) are crying out that human creativity is officially dead, drowned in a sea
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Grief Coding

It's 3 AM and I am frustrated with Cursor's agent. Over the last many weeks I've typed very little - mostly preferring voice based input (Wispr Flow), especially while building and coding. I give

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My 2026 AI Wishlist

Overcoming the early sins of AI user experience and bringing AI from its adolescence into its adulthood. [Disclaimer: These are my personal views and in no way reflect the views of my employer.]
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A Personal AI Manifesto

I remember the very first time I played Super Mario Brothers on an NES console. It was 1989 and I was down with chicken pox. To stop me from scratching myself and keep me distracted, my dad rented a
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A Year of Quizzing - 2024 Retrospective

I used to quiz fairly regularly both in school and college and also loved setting and hosting quizzes (the high point was co-hosting the inaugural IIT Madras Open Quiz in 2004). But then I lost touch
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Language and Science - Or Why Metaphors are Dangerous

Language is imprecise. Language is especially imprecise and imperfect when it comes to describing scientific concepts. And the irony of using the tools of language to write about its own shortcomings
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Gratitude

I love good teachers and classrooms. Something about the act of learning - sitting in a room, completely distraction-free and being a complete sponge - listening intently to a teacher at the peak of
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Side Quests

I often find myself thinking about the Greek hero Odysseus (and NO - this is not one of those Elon Musk things where he claims he thinks about the Roman empire daily or how men supposedly think about

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