Kunal Kshirsagar

Product Manager in Silicon Valley! | Netflix | Meta | Apple | Yahoo - views about cricket, product management and life! views are my own and not my employers

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

@stefan_meyer98 @Muse Its super fast as well.. compared to other options

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

@Muse is amazing! I had to download receipts for 9 different months. @Muse did it in few seconds - that would've taken me so much more time. Impressed. Bullish $META

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

@chamath What a story! Happy birthday

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

@MatthewBerman @bot Would love setup the family bot. I’d appreciate the code.

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

Nepal floods are devastating. One of the worst I've seen. Is there a way to donate to the disaster relief work there?

[Katie Kirsch @katiekirsch]

the best people to work with are:

- extremely proactive
- high agency
- eager for feedback
- low ego

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

@joshkim @bot I'd love to try this! thanks

[aether @bluewdrift]

This line from Atomic Habits isn't ready to leave my head:

"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

@DrJBhattacharya Sorry for your loss. 🙏🙏

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

Do cardio to add years to your life.

Lift weights to add life to your years.

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

This is such an important skill to teach your kids!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Something I told 14 yo: People are going to stop reading books. I wish this wasn't so, but I fear it is. The silver lining in this cloud is that if you're one of the few people who still read, you'll have a huge advantage over everyone else.

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

Interesting to see Morocco have more support in Houston than Canada! #Fıfaworldcup

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

Happy 250th birthday America! Land of the free and brave. Be a shining star 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Kunal Kshirsagar @kshirsagarkunal]

Amazing progress! #AI #Anthropic

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Today, Anthropic engineers on average ship 8x as much code per quarter as they did compared to 2021-2025.

[Gagan Biyani 🏛 @gaganbiyani]

Fremont: Capital city of Indian Americans

[Paul Graham @paulg]

A startup idea that only works if there are already a significant number of people using it is not a valid startup idea. There has to be some subset of users who need what you're making so desperately that they'll use it even if no one else is.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

Engineers don't write code.

PMs are shipping to production.

The design process is dead (there's no time).

Marketing can ship their own campaigns.

SDRs are being replaced by AI.

Everyone's a data scientist now.

What a time to be alive.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

My biggest takeaways from Claude Code's Head of Product @_catwu:

1. Anthropic’s product development timelines have gone from six months to one month, sometimes one week, sometimes one day. Part of this acceleration is access to the latest models (i.e. Mythos). Another is shipping new products into “research preview,” making clear it's early, experimental, and might not be supported forever. Another is an evergreen "launch room "where engineers post ready features and marketing turns around announcements the next day.

2. The PM role is shifting from coordinating multi-month roadmaps to enabling teams to ship daily. As Cat puts it, “There should be less emphasis on making sure you are aligning your multi-quarter roadmaps with your partner teams and more emphasis on, OK, how can we figure out the fastest way to get something out the door?”

3. The most efficient shipping unit is an engineer with great product taste. On Cat’s team, many engineers go end-to-end—from seeing user feedback on Twitter to shipping a product by the end of the week—without a PM involved. Also, almost all the PMs on the Claude Code team have either been engineers or ship code themselves, and the designers have been front-end engineers. The roles are merging, and the most valuable skill is product taste, not job title.

4. Build products that are on the edge of working. Claude Code’s code review product failed multiple times because earlier models weren’t accurate enough. But because the prototype was already built, they could swap in Opus 4.5 and 4.6 and immediately test whether the gap was closed. Teams that wait for the model to be ready will always be a cycle behind.

5. The most underrated skill for building AI products is asking the model to introspect on its own mistakes. Cat regularly asks the model why it made an unexpected decision. The model will explain that something in the system prompt was confusing, or that it delegated verification to a subagent that didn’t check its work. This reveals what misled the model so the team can fix the harness.

6. Every model release forces their team to revisit existing products and audit their system prompt to remove features the model no longer needs. Claude Code’s to-do list was a crutch for earlier models that couldn’t track their own work. With Opus 4, the model handles it natively. Features built as scaffolding for weaker models become debt when the model catches up—so the team actively strips them.

7. Anthropic employees build custom internal tools instead of buying SaaS products. A sales team member built a web app that pulls from Salesforce, Gong, and call notes to auto-customize pitch decks—work that used to take 20 to 30 minutes now takes seconds. Their core stack is Claude Code, Cowork, and Slack. No Notion, no Linear, no Figma.

8. People underestimate how much Claude’s personality contributes to its success. As Cat describes it, “When you reflect on everyone you’ve worked with, there’s just some people where you’re like, I really like their energy, their vibe.” Claude is designed to be low-ego, positive, competent, and earnest—qualities that make it feel like a great coworker, not just a tool. This isn’t cosmetic; it’s what makes people want to use Claude for hours every day. The team has a dedicated person, Amanda, who “molds Claude’s character,” and it’s one of the hardest roles at the company because success is so subjective.

9. The future of work is managing fleets of AI agents, not doing the work yourself. Cat sees a clear progression: first, individual tasks become successful. Then people start running multiple tasks at the same time (multi-Clauding). Next, people will run 50 or 100 tasks simultaneously, which will require new infrastructure—remote execution, better interfaces for managing tasks, agents that fully verify their work, and self-improving systems that incorporate feedback. The human role shifts from doing the work to knowing which tasks to look into, verifying outputs, and giving feedback that makes the system better over time.

10. Hire people who lean into chaos and face every challenge with a smile. At Anthropic, there are weeks when a P0 on Sunday becomes a P00 by Monday and a P000 by Monday afternoon. If you get too stressed about any one thing, you’ll burn out. Their team looks for people who can look at a hard challenge and say, “Wow, that’s gonna be hard. But I’m excited to tackle it and I’m gonna do the best that I possibly can.” This mindset—optimism, resilience, and comfort with constant change—is increasingly essential as the pace of AI development accelerates.

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