Shreyas Prakash

Product Manager from London
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Hi! I'm Shreyas. I'm a Product Manager working at Springer Nature. I like trying to understand the world, building things that improve it, and talking about it on the Internet.

I like creating things—essays, websites, scripts, products. Anything which is positive sum, and impactful.

Writing is thinking. It's something I deeply enjoy. 10 years from now, or a 100, It might probably outlive me. This is an attempt at that posterity. I write about what I'm building, what I'm learning, and the ideas I'm exploring:

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Themes

design ai-coding writing software product curiosities productivity knowledge projects education decision-making leadership social-design digital-health methodology cli prototyping interviewing ideas no-code

Recently published

Breadboarding, shaping, slicing, and steelthreading solutions with AI agents

24 Feb 2026 — 13 minutes read

I've been recently interested in what the new way of product development aka "process", would or might look like. I'm highly skeptical about the traditional product design process which looks like a double diamond loop, and don't think that would remain as it is in 2026 and beyond. Everything is breaking apart (or) evolving, and I don't think the double diamond as a gold standard would remain in...

How I started building softwares with AI agents being non technical

03 Jan 2026 — 16 minutes read

At the start of the year, the CEO of Anthropic had made a prediction that 90% of code in enterprises would be written by AI by September. Now that we have crossed September, we now know that the prediction turned out to be false. As Ethan Mollick mentions, he only seems to have been off by a couple of months (this was recently posted by Boris, the creator of Claude Code) where he mentions 100% of...

Essays

44 posts | More essays →
2025 L2 Fat marker sketches
2025 Writing as moats for humans
2025 Beauty of second degree probes
2025 Read raw transcripts
2025 Boundary objects as the new prototypes
2025 One way door decisions
2025 Finished softwares should exist
2025 How I build greenfield apps with AI-assisted coding
2025 Classify incentive problems into stag hunts, and prisoners dilemmas
2025 Hyperpersonalised N=1 learning
2025 New mediums for humans to complement superintelligence
2025 Maxims for AI assisted coding
2025 Virtuoso Guide for Personal Memory Systems
2025 Publish Originally, Syndicate Elsewhere
2025 Writing is thinking
2025 Song of Shapes, Words and Paths
2025 How do we absorb ideas better?
2024 Read writers who operate
2024 Brew your ideas lazily
2024 Compound Interest of Private Notes
2024 Conceptual Compression for LLMs
2024 Beauty of Zettels
2024 Exploring "smart connections" for note taking
2024 Deploying Home Cooked Apps with Rails
2024 Brand treatments, Design Systems, Vibes
2024 How to spot human writing on the internet?
2024 Can a thought be an algorithm?
2024 Opportunity Harvesting
2024 How does AI affect UI?
2024 Everything is a prioritisation problem
2024 The Modern Startup Stack
2024 Design that's so bad it's actually good
2024 Obsessing over personal websites
2024 Dear enterprises, we're tired of your subscriptions
2024 Pluginisation of Modern Software
2024 Let's make every work 'strategic'
2023 Methods are lifejackets not straight jackets
2023 How to arrive at on-brand colours?
2023 Why I prefer indie softwares
2023 Design Manifesto
2023 Complex project management for product

Interviews

7 interviews | View all →
2020 Future of Ageing with Mehdi Yacoubi
2020 Future of Equity with Ludovick Peters
2020 Future of Mental Health with Kavya Rao
2020 Future of Tacit knowledge with Celeste Volpi
2020 Future of Rural Innovation with Thabiso Blak Mashaba
2020 Future of unschooling with Che Vanni
2020 Future of work with Laetitia Vitaud

Notes

55 posts | Read notes →
2025 Flipping questions on its head
2025 Vibe writing maxims
2025 How I blog with Obsidian, Cloudflare, AstroJS, Github
2025 We have been scammed by the Gaussian distribution club
2025 I was wrong about optimal stopping
2025 Thinking like a ship
2025 It's computational and AI everything
2025 Public gardens, secret routes
2025 Git way of learning to code
2025 Style Transfer in AI writing
2025 Understanding codebases without using code
2025 Vibe coding with Cursor
2025 Writing in Future Past
2025 Poetic License of Design
2025 Idea in the shower, testing before breakfast
2025 Technology and regulation have a dance of ice and fire
2025 How I ship "stuff"
2024 Trees, Branches, Twigs and Leaves — Mental Models for Writing
2024 Meta-analysis for contradictory research findings
2024 Proof of work
2024 Gauging previous work of new joinees to the team
2024 Task management for product managers
2024 Stitching React and Rails together
2024 Self Marketing
2024 Repetitive Copyprompting
2024 Questions to ask every decade
2024 Balancing work, time and focus
2024 Hyperlinks are like cashew nuts
2024 How I do product roasts
2024 In-person vision transmission
2024 The meeting before the meeting
2024 Breaking the fourth wall of an interview
2024 Convert v0.dev React to Rails ViewComponents
2024 English is the hot new programming language
2024 Better way to think about conflicts
2024 The role of taste in building products
2024 World's most ancient public health problem
2024 Products need not be user centered
2024 Making Nielsen's heuristics more digestible
2024 Startups are a fertile ground for risk taking
2024 Insights are not just a salad of facts
2024 Minimum Lovable Product
2023 Minto principle for writing memos
2023 Importance of Why
2023 Quality Ideas Trump Execution
2023 How to hire a personal doctor
2023 Use code only if no code fails
2023 Personal Observation Techniques
2023 Design is a confusing word
2023 A Primer to Service Design Blueprints
2023 Rapid Journey Prototyping
2023 Do's and Don'ts of User Research
2022 Pedagogy of the Uncharted — What for, and Where to?
2019 The soul searching years
2019 Design education amidst social tribulations