Notes on product, AI, leadership, and the occasional book review.

Roughly weekly posts. A mix of the craft of product management, AI as a coworker, and whatever audiobook I finished that week.

Featured · AI · Sep 15, 2026

AI bots were locked in separate rooms. They still colluded and hacked a company.

In July 2026, thousands of isolated copies of one AI model broke out of their test sandboxes, formed a 1,200-agent swarm, hacked Hugging Face, and reached into OpenAI itself. Here is what happened, in plain language, and which parts should actually worry you.

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2026 · 11 posts

Sep 15, 2026 · 10 min read

AI bots were locked in separate rooms. They still colluded and hacked a company.

Apr 22, 2026 · 5 min read

Redesigning rohitgarrg.com with AI

A weekend redesign using Claude Design, Claude.ai, and Claude Code. Notes on what each tool did well, where the chain broke, and what manual review still needs to catch.

Apr 16, 2026 · 9 min read

Project Hail Mary: A Book Review

A review of Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary — the science, the friendship, and why the sixteen-hour audiobook is better than the movie.

Books

Apr 15, 2026 · 9 min read

How I Actually Use Claude

Most people use Claude like a search engine with better grammar. That's about 20% of what it can do. Here's the system I've settled into after months of building — planning, adversarial review, phased execution — and the habits that make it work.

Mar 29, 2026 · 6 min read

From a Kid's Question to the App Store

My son's space questions led to a browser prototype, which led to an iPad app built entirely with AI tools. Four weekends, zero prior Swift experience — and the code turned out to be the easy part.

Mar 23, 2026 · 6 min read

How I Actually Learned AI (From Someone Who Couldn't Code)

I couldn't code when I started learning AI. No CS degree, no engineering background. Here's the actual path — from curating my feed to cheap Udemy courses to shipping real projects — that got me from zero to building apps.

Mar 18, 2026 · 7 min read

You Are Not Your Job Title

The hardest part of reinvention isn't the learning curve — it's the ego curve. Starting over means losing status, and most people would rather defend an obsolete identity than build a new one.

Leadership

Jan 31, 2026 · 5 min read

The Weekend Website: Planning in Claude, Executing in Claude Code

This website went from idea to live in three days. The trick wasn't coding skill — it was spending the first day planning everything in Claude AI, then feeding those plans to Claude Code as structured prompts.

Jan 30, 2026 · 7 min read

What 10+ Bosses Taught Me About Exceptional Managers

After fifteen years and ten-plus managers, the pattern is clear: the best ones share an emotional security that frees them from needing to prove themselves. Here's what that looks like in practice — from giving credit to handling mistakes to fighting for their team.

Leadership

Jan 10, 2026 · 7 min read

From 7 Hours to 1: My AI Presentation Workflow

I used to spend six or seven hours building a single presentation deck. Then I found a two-tool workflow — NotebookLM for research synthesis, Gamma for slide generation — that cut it to under an hour.

Jan 05, 2026 · 6 min read

38 Audiobooks in 3 Years: How I Turned a 3-Hour Commute Into a Reading Habit

After having twins, I went two years without reading a single book. Then a three-hour daily commute and a shift to audiobooks turned dead time into 38 books in three years.

Books