Ankit ⚡️

Product Professional by week | tinkering with tech on weekends to answer 'what if?' 🤔

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

PHP was so easy that everyone had a go at it. The internet ended up with a decade of bad PHP, and PHP ended up with a bad name. Vibe coding is having its PHP moment.

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

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[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

a fun little project: my home agent now publishes a daily magazine - to slow the world down for me. it wakes up every morning and reads the internet so I don't have to. 📰

an agent runs on the cloud, every day at 6am, completely unattended. it crawls hundreds of blogs and newsletters (the ones I pick), keeps the best of it (~1 in 10), and writes a ~20-page magazine in my voice - all in about 20 minutes. then it reaches back home over Tailscale and prints it on my actual printer.

cloud does the research, my living room gets the paper - because screens were starting to feel like quicksand.

it's tuned just for me: bangalore weather, this week's events, a little puzzle - the stuff I actually care about. and the dream is to keep layering in more of my life: health data, my calendar, whatever I'm living through instead of just hearing about.

open source on github, still actively building - more code landing over the next couple of weekends (final code not pushed yet).

building to satisfy my curiosity. 🌱

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

Bangalore folks 📍

Plenty of events out there - startups pitching, event talks, expert panels, forced networking (🫣). I wanted something simpler that didn't seem to exist: a small room of people close to the building, going deep on where AI is actually heading. No stage, no guests, no pitches.

It started as a note-to-self on 31st Dec - "do something like this in 2026." This is me keeping it, before the year laughs back at me 🫠 .

The format: the month in AI, unpacked over coffee and lunch. Less reading a newsletter, more sitting at one 🧠 Expect a fair bit of "wait, they shipped that?" 👀

Six rabbit holes we're going down 👇
🤖 Reachy Mini & why anyone builds hardware when software pays
🛠️ Anthropic's dev conf - after the hype settled
💸 Stripe vs Razorpay & the race to agentic wallets… agents that can pay?
🧑‍💻 Karpathy → Anthropic & whether job titles still mean anything
🔁 Building loops to steer agents - the unglamorous part nobody posts about
🔥 +1 still cooking

📍 Koramangala, Bangalore ·
🗓️ Sun 28 Jun, 11 AM - 3 PM ·

The one I keep circling: if agents can ship, pay, and self-correct in a loop… what's left that needs us in the room? Come argue about it.

Kept small on purpose. https://t.co/3UQ8U73kbV

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

claude now shows when it's forgetting stuff 🫠

"compacting our conversation so we can keep chatting..."

chatgpt starts fresh. claude compresses and keeps going. different product decisions for the same constraint.

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

Like many of you, 2025 has been a roller coaster.

Professional certainties becoming redundant overnight. Businesses scrambling to adapt. The constant question: what does AI actually mean for how we work?

Somewhere in March 2024, I started hosting small virtual gatherings. No fancy name, no business plan. Just product people getting together to figure things out.

A few dozen sessions. Conversations I didn't know I needed.

PMs from startups wondering how to ship AI features without burning runway. Enterprise folks navigating the politics of AI adoption. Solo builders debugging their first LLM integration. People across companies, sharing what's working - and what's absolutely not.

We talked about the real stuff:
- How companies are actually using AI (not the press release version)
- What breaks when you move from demo to production
- The uncomfortable truth about AI changing how we work
- Roadmapping when the technology shifts every quarter

Some weeks went deep on technical concepts. Other weeks were pure PM craft - prioritization, stakeholder management, the messy human side of building products.

Then December 2024 happened.

Life reshuffled priorities. I stepped back. The sessions paused.

But here's what stayed with me:

The best part was never the topics. It was the people who showed up. Strangers who became thinking partners. Questions that led somewhere unexpected. The feeling of figuring things out together instead of alone.

That's rare. And I want more of it.

2026 is about three things:

More connection. Bringing conversations back and taking them offline. Same room, same whiteboard, real coffee.

Better balance. I was too absorbed in work this year. That changes now.

Staying curious. Technology keeps pulling me in. That part takes care of itself.

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*Posting this December 30th, 2025. A marker to return to. On the last day of 2026, I want to open this and see what changed.*

Let's see what 2026 brings - hope yours is a good one 🌟

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

Before moving into 2026, making a promise to myself: occasionally build something with zero commercial intent.

Not a side hustle. Not "what if this becomes a business".

Just few things here and there that annoys me enough to fix them (and have fun solving them).

To start, I picked a small one.

Copy. Switch. Paste. Tab. Copy. Switch. Paste.
Repeat 50 times and you start questioning your life choices.

So this weekend, I opened Xcode. First time building a Mac app since 2013.

My Objective-C instincts kept firing. Swift kept saying "we don't do that here."

The process:
- A little vibe coding.
- A little actual coding when the vibes hallucinated.
- A lot of researching "how do I even do X in Swift now."
- Even more time fixing what I just broke.

Result: a small utility that collects multiple clipboard items, then lets you paste them in batch.

Shipped something just for myself. No roadmap. No metrics.

Remembered why I got into this in the first place. 😌

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

Oh! @claude ...🙂

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@claudeai 🙋‍♂️

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@trq212 Done. Running a community from past few years in India, done events in past. Would love to host something.

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

This one’s actually good... https://t.co/qxySYca1Gv

[Ado @adocomplete]

Hey friends - if you haven't already tried Claude, you can get a month of Claude Pro for free.

This is good through tomorrow, so get to it!

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@MikeSallese9 More context? 🤔

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@alexalbert__ Quite interesting. I see github repo of MCP, is there a documentation where I can read on how to create MCP servers that are not in the list?

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@VaughnVernon @Meetup Yep. Becoming too expensive. I am cancelling. They should've fixed discovery and other problems with platform before bumping up the price. But they chose other way around. I seriously feel this will be worst decision when they will look back few years down the line. @Meetup

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@bethanhelen8 @MichaelAde76396 I am trying out. pretty impressed what figma has done with slides.

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@LilyChimamaka just discovered it. trying it out over canva, quite good I must say.

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@ilyasut S4 started 🍿

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@francoxavier33 Excepted 😂

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@fikrigha @tdinh_me I don't think so.

[Ankit ⚡️ @_curiouspm]

@philkellr @Fastmail Yep. Using it from 10 yrs now. Give it a shot