Anshumani Ruddra

Tinkerer. Fixer. Product Builder @Google

Writes and builds on and teaches on:

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

I started teaching when I was in high school. A close friend needed help with algebra and trig so we spent a couple of hours over the weekend going through a set of questions and solving them methodically. The next weekend, two more friends turned up. Soon, it became a regular occurence in my living room - a group of teenagers huddled together - laughing and solving hard problems. While my friends found these sessions to be useful - I found them to be invaluable. To be able to teach something well - I had to first understand it deeply. Teaching unlocked deep understanding. It was a great hack.

And so over the last 30 years I have taught pre-teens, almost adults, college students and my peers. Most recently - two gentlemen in their 70s (one a father of a close friend, and another the father-in-law of a friend) attended my AI course for executives and entrepreneurs. I feel most like myself when I'm teaching something that I work on daily. And for me this is using AI as a product builder. Being an operator and a teacher is how I have always viewed myself.

So it felt really good to wake up to the news that @MavenHQ had picked me as a top expert in the Product category. Thousands of students have attended my free lightning lessons, paid workshops and courses on AI and Product Management.

I am currently teaching my signature course: Level to Product Super IC with AI and have cohorts open for all my AI workshops across June, July and August. And Maven is offering a flat 25% off till Sunday on all of these workshops and courses. PMs, engineers, designers, entrepreneurs and executives from the best tech and non-tech companies around the world have benefited from these and I can't wait to huddle with you and solve difficult problems together. So sign up now:

https://t.co/wVcvKI4zHu (rated 5/5 by alumni)

https://t.co/0r4WnMseCw (rated 4.6/5 by alumni)

https://t.co/DMULF1eYLh (rated 5/5 by alumni)

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

@karthiks Haha great eye. My pride and joy - Logitech G413 TKL mechanical keyboard. The G9 series is wireless and an upgrade. But I love the sound of the keys on the G413.

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

Teaching has massive payoffs.

When my students - product, engineering and design leaders at some of the best tech companies in the world and executives at the most culturally-relevant media and entertainment companies - come to the class excited to show what they have built using AI - I cannot help but feel on top of the world!

Twice this week - while teaching my course Level Up to Product Super IC with AI - I've felt this rush. The first was when a student - a dedicated marathon runner - connected all his health apps (Garmin, Strava, etc) into one single dashboard (including insights from his coach) to track his performance over time. This is something he is deeply passionate about and spends a lot of time, effort and money on. But seeing all the data in one place with clear performance indicators unlocked an incredible amount of value for him. He is now connecting his YT Premium and Spotify playlists to this - to see the effect of music on his performance!

The second was when a hardware product manager connected internal data and built a robust dashboard for her entire team - a task they had all wanted to accomplish for many quarters but couldn't because it just never got prioritized as part of their roadmap. She and her entire team are excited about the value this brings to them.

This is what keeps me going. Teaching is hard. Sitting in Singapore I run workshops and courses for students across the world. I do it at odd hours (sometime late into the night and early mornings on weekends). But my energy levels never drop - because being an operator and a teacher is what brings me joy.

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

So come along on this journey. I have two great workshops coming up next week:

https://t.co/2LsCPpI08G

https://t.co/jm8hvmwEwq

And Maven is offering a 25% discount on all courses and workshops by its top 100 instructors (I am honored to be one of them and in great company).

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

@today_itself @karthiks @imteng @srikrishnang @AyanChakrabarti Waah - all the legends in one place. But yes Gapa and Ayan were the masterminds behind that event.

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

@imteng @srikrishnang @karthiks Yup - I was part of the team that organized the event. Ayan and Aditya coded the whole thing. Was a super fun event!

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

The video from my most recent lightning lesson is now live on Maven: https://t.co/pY8PP78Gdg

Two more free lightning lessons over the next two days. Don't miss out: https://t.co/FpUnFd6U1H

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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.

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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.

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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 ⬇️)

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

Boston weather is crazy!

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

Links to all the upcoming lightning lessons: https://t.co/ulGQbdKelG

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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 ⬇️)

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

@suhrutpanda Doing a course on Strategic Negotiations this time around

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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.

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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.

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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.

[Vivian Balakrishnan @VivianBala]

Thanks @Gavriel_Cohen. You’re right. I never used an IDE. Claude Code made all edits. No @karpathy ‘vibe coding’. All I did was ‘tool assembly’ to create a utility that worked in my domain!

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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 https://t.co/FIZqMFtW1K):

- 🛠️ 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. https://t.co/0r4WnMseCw

- 💼 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. https://t.co/wVcvKI4zHu

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

@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.

[Anshumani Ruddra @baboonzero]

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.