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Things I've been thinking about.
One argument each. Mostly about the gap between what AI promises and what actually ships.
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ProductApr 6, 2026
Don't Build the Product
Why the credibility paradox kills more startups than bad products - and the playbook to break through it before you've written a single line of code.
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AIApr 1, 2026 · 1m
40% of AI Agent Projects Will Be Canceled. Here's What Kills Them.
Gartner dropped a stat that should make every AI team pause: 40% of agentic AI projects will be canceled by 2027. Not delayed. Not pivoted. Canceled.
TechMar 31, 2026 · 1m
JioHotstar Just Killed Something 30 Years Old. Nobody Noticed.
The search bar had a 30-year run. JioHotstar retired it quietly. What replaces it and what every product team should steal from that decision.
AIMar 19, 2026 · 1m
Anthropic Didn't Build Dispatch to Win. They Built It to Last.
OpenClaw hit 320,000 GitHub stars in two months. Anthropic watched - then shipped Dispatch. Same category. Different game entirely.
AIMar 17, 2026 · 1m
The Embedding Race Looks Like a Tie. It Isn't.
Google didn't invent multimodal embeddings. Amazon got there first. So what exactly did Google ship? An architectural argument worth understanding.
AIMar 8, 2026 · 1m
Your AI Roadmap Is Built Backwards. Here's How to Flip It.
Most AI teams don't build bad roadmaps on purpose. They just start with the wrong question. Here's the framework to flip it.
ProductMar 8, 2026 · 1m
Your Process Documentation Is Lying to You
Every company has three versions of their process. The one in the SOP. The one in the system. The one in people's heads. They are never the same.
ProductMar 8, 2026 · 1m
I've Been at Every Major Platform Shift Since 2015. Here's What I Keep Noticing.
Game engines. Mixed reality. Agentic AI. Finance automation. The technology changes. The pattern doesn't.
AIFeb 27, 2026 · 1m
PageIndex vs Vector RAG: A New Approach to Document Retrieval
I spent the last week comparing two approaches to AI retrieval. One has been the industry default for three years. The other launched in September 2025.
TechFeb 17, 2026 · 1m
Your $50 Fire TV Stick Just Became a Gaming Console
Nvidia just added GeForce NOW support for the basic $50 Fire TV Stick. Not some fancy new hardware. And that's a bigger product story than it looks.
AIFeb 1, 2026 · 1m
Stop Dumping Tools Into Context. It Doesn't Scale
Everyone loves MCP in demos. Nobody talks about what happens when you connect five servers and the agent forgets how to think.
TechJan 20, 2026 · 1m
Product Discovery Is Changing. Most Brands Aren't Ready
Perplexity, ChatGPT, Comet, Dia. Agents are becoming the first layer between buyers and products. And most brands aren't ready.
AIJan 18, 2026 · 1m
How I Actually Use AI and Why Most People Use It Wrong
I've been using AI tools daily for more than a year. Not as a novelty - as infrastructure. Most people treat AI like a smart Google.
AIJan 8, 2026 · 1m
The AI Agent Stack is Confusing. Here's How I Pick
People keep asking: 'Should I use n8n or LangGraph?' Wrong question. I've shipped agentic systems at Avataar and Neoflo. Here's the mental model.
AIJan 3, 2026 · 1m
Will TOON Replace JSON in the AI World?
There's a new format gunning for JSON's throne. It's called TOON - Token-Oriented Object Notation. The reasoning behind it is worth understanding.
AIDec 31, 2025 · 1m
The End of the Eyeball: How AI is Killing Ads (And What's Coming Next)
AI chatbots vs Google. Agentic shopping. Amazon suing startups. Payment rails for bots. A $1 trillion market nobody's figured out yet.
AIDec 29, 2025 · 1m
Building AI for Finance Teams - Why It's Harder Than It Looks
47 browser tabs. 3 spreadsheets. One folder called 'INVOICES_FINAL_FINAL_v3.' Here's why building AI for finance is harder than anything else.
AIDec 29, 2025 · 1m
Stop Wasting Tokens. Here's the Context Strategy That Actually Scales
Every time you load your entire project into Claude's context, you're burning tokens. Here's the system that actually fixes it.
AIDec 26, 2025 · 1m
The Prompt Is Dead. Here's What Replaced It
Prompts don't scale. Skills do. How Anthropic's new architecture solves the consistency problem that's been breaking AI products.
AIDec 18, 2025 · 1m
SEO in 2025: Optimising for Humans and AI Agents
Humans scan in 3 seconds. AI agents parse in milliseconds. What I learned revamping Neoflo's website - and why llms.txt might be more important than your sitemap.
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Shubham ShrivastavaHead of Product · Neoflo.ai