Vignesh Palaniappan

building with ai // agents @datadoghq // ex-startup founder, @google, @amazon // my own thoughts

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

Everyone thinks Claude Code is just for engineers.

The truth is it’s one of the most underrated tools for product managers. It’s basically a cheat code for anyone buried in ops grind and endless analysis.

Here’s how I use it day-to-day 🧵

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

Bits AI is now powered with Datadog AI credits meaningfully lowering the price per investigation

[ゆずきぬ🐕 / iwa @mananyuki]

Bits AI 周りの課金体系変わってる！
Bits AI SRE 含めて AI クレジット課金になり、Bits Chat (Bits Assistant) は利用するツールごとに単価が変わるけれど、比較的割安な単価が設定されてそうに見える👀
#Datadog
https://t.co/3xgBhR7Bsz

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

AI ads have infiltrated Times Square

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@marty_kausas running into same dilemma at datadog I really see per seat is outdated doesn’t scale, usage is what’s truly being implemented but requires strong governance guardrails, and outcome is ideal but is real sticker shock to customers

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

Bits AI can help customers create and setup monitors

[iselegant | Masaya Arai @msy78]

後手になっていたDatadogのモニター＆アラート定義を設定しているけど、Bits AIで壁打ちしてモニター用JSON出力→定義後にテスト通知→問題なければTerraform出力して管理、といった体験が最高すぎる。

DatadogのBits AI、DevXが最高すぎるので推していきたい。

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

@davidfromkansas thanks david! yeah agreed, relationships have never been so important

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https://t.co/wPiIU2cluf

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@NickRTFM Japan reaches semifinals of WC

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@icanvardar my similar math

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Boy math is realizing one night out costs the same as Claude Max and deciding the subscription is basically free

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

Boy math is realizing one night out costs the same as Claude Max and deciding the subscription is basically free

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

@Seanfrank what are examples companies that fall in bucket 2?

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

Incredible milestone for PathAI to be acquired by Roche. Over the past decade, PathAI helped push digital pathology from an emerging idea into real workflows used by pathologists to improve patient outcomes at scale. Grateful I had the chance to help contribute to this vision.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Switzerland's Roche agrees to acquire US-based PathAI https://t.co/xUsSmuq3lv https://t.co/xUsSmuq3lv

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

@naval more ui for consumer and less ui for b2b

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

Bits supports your favorite models

[Iwamin @B_Sardine]

Datadog Bits Assistant めちゃ便利やん
しかもモデル自由に選べるのか

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

@JustinBleuel @ChatGPTapp such a powerful feature, this is so helpful for the amount of times i want to make a quick edit in a middle of gpt thinking

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

@paulg @kanateven feels like a replay of brex vs ramp

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@OfficialLoganK we just launched our benchmarks at datadog

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Datadog’s Anomaly Reasoning Framework benchmark, built on real incident data, shows a pattern of humans and AI failing in different ways, and the best results come from combining domain expertise with model reasoning

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

@joannewang_ the L train is equivalent to the 101

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

@alighodsi this is neat, we recently launched something similar at datadog as well

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

We’ve launched Bits Assistant to help customers search and act across Datadog to resolve issues faster. Few examples below on how we see customers use it.

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

Datadog’s Anomaly Reasoning Framework benchmark, built on real incident data, shows a pattern of humans and AI failing in different ways, and the best results come from combining domain expertise with model reasoning

[Othmane @ThisIsOthmane]

The best AI models can only answer 63% of basic questions about production outages. Your on-call engineers get 72%.

But here's the twist: they fail on completely different questions. Combine them and you hit 87%.

We built a benchmark to measure this, and a new model (Toto-1.0-QA-Experimental) that matches GPT-5 at a fraction of the cost. Great work from @stephofx and team!

🔗 👇

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

Growing AI usage has made me realize an uncomfortable truth that most job functions never really had rigorous review processes, unlike software engineering where code review is built into the workflow. For PMs, data analysts, and content writers, work is often trusted by default, lightly spot checked, or reviewed through subjective stakeholder feedback. Now with AI, I’m realizing we don’t even have clear ways to evaluate what these roles produce in the first place.

[Vignesh Palaniappan @vigneshp_]

As AI gets adopted inside companies:
2025: docs everywhere
2026: prototypes everywhere
2027: feature flags everywhere