Ashwin's blog

A series teaching you about AI, written for Product Managers (PMs).

Laugh tracks So it’s been a little less than a year since I started trying to do comedy.

A friend suggested that I allow users to login to hunchle.com without a password.

Miles vs Cash-back Calculator Miles vs Cash-back Calculator Miles per dollar Cash-back rate (%) Investment return (%) Devaluation rate (%) Years Redemption rates — CPP (comma-separated) CPP Devaluation Initial Miles Value Breakeven Year Miles @ End Cash @…

Tools and pages I’ve built when inspiration struck.

CAGR Calculator CAGR Calculator Enter any 3 values to calculate the 4th.

I looked up what the latest AIs had said about my father, my mother and the male ancestors on her side of the family.

With AI advancing rapidly, one of the most asked questions these days is, “Are software engineers still needed?”.

Click the buttons to rewrite the article in the style of different authors

For as long as I can remember, I’ve found I’m happiest when surrounded by friends.

This is my now page.

Any researchers who want the prompts and/or links to the chats can contact me =) I went through the Formula 1 EOY quiz on Mr V’s Garage’s YouTube channel and decided to put some AIs through the test as well.

Intro/Disclaimer: Trade at your own risk!

12/02/2025 Jensen’s talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business (link).

I like playing sports.

None of these are particularly revolutionary, but it helps to have them listed so you can use them actively to your benefit (rather than hoping these tools fall into your hand).

Intro Disclaimer: There are some generalizations below, and so all the disclaimers for generalizations apply.

I don’t think concerts are worth going to.

A laundry list Started doing stand-up comedy.

Kerala As an NRI, your dollar goes a lot farther in India.

The green card blues If you’re an Indian in the US (or thinking about moving to the US), you likely know the problems with immigrating to the US.

For a lot of my career, I never really understood software design.

DISCLAIMER: None of the below is financial advice or recommendations for anyone beyond myself.

Zuckerberg has written a post on “personal superintelligence” here.

My love for stand-up Click to expand; feel free to skip I've often thought of myself as someone who loved making people laugh.

Time for a blog post detailing the difficulty with creating a fun-to-play trivia app (www.hunchle.com) Generating questions is hard A good quiz app needs good questions.

I used AI in a big way to build Hunchle.

If you’ve been following along, I’ve been using LLMs for a while, as detailed here and here.

At the outset, this may seem an absurd conclusion.

Over the last few months, during my short foray into management, one of the most common questions I got during 1:1s was, “Why did you decide to become a manager?”

Sleep/Awake Duration Analysis Sleep/Awake Duration Analysis Sleep Duration Mean Std Dev Awake Duration Mean Std Dev Sleep Duration Distribution Awake Duration Distribution

Continuous Activity Actogram - Sleep Analysis Continuous Activity Actogram Visualization of computer activity blocks over a continuous timeline. 🟢 Green = Active/Awake, 🔴 Red = Sleep, 🟡 Yellow = Untagged gaps (click to tag)

2025 Marriage Penalty / Bonus Heatmap Approximate 2025 U.S.

Intro Around 7 years ago I wrote “A guide to finances” which some of my friends found helpful.

Chat Statistics Chat Statistics (Anonymized) Messages per Hour Characters per Hour

What is it I just finished playing NAND game which gets you to build a computer starting from simple relay circuits.

Adding to my list of what I’ve used AI (read as “LLMs”) for.

Our trip to Cancun Day 1 Landed on Friday afternoon.

Brief list of what I’ve used AI (read as “LLMs”) for.

Disclaimer 1: This is my understanding, if you spot something wrong, please assume best intentions and let me know, thanks!

This is a post about watching sports, but it is written not only for those of you that watch sports or are sport-curious (those that think that they may want to watch sports but aren’t sure).

“Don’t meet your heroes,” I’ve heard.

Cluster headaches I’ve always thought it would be a better use of time to do research on conditions rather than simply pray.

Written after the fact, but here are a collection of my monthly reviews for 2023: July June May April March February January As evidenced by the short list, I couldn’t keep up after July

The initial signs Unfortunately, on the last day of a trip to Alaska, I started feeling a throat infection coming on.

The S T P Back in June, I heard one of my friends talking about doing the STP with a friend.

Can you tell the time?

Over the last couple of years there has been a lot of talk about decentralization of the web.

The case for the curmudgeon Ever notice that one guy on the team always complaining about stuff?

Here’s a list of some cool blogs I think are worth a read: Software engineers Approximately in the order I’d recommend them in Julia Evans Marc Brooker Joel Spolsky Steve Yegge Cindy Sridharan Vaidehi Joshi - not really a blog, but the basecs and baseds s…