I did not have a Github account till last week and did not understand what is a repo, but I went from designing, coding and deploying my website on Github in few hours using Cursor medium.com/@manipande/h...
OMG!! All these AI influencer posts on Linkedin explaining the obvious like what did Anthropic release or what did Karpathy real mean are so tiring, I keep marking them as spams but they keep showing back up
The Bollywood legend was one of the world's most recorded artists — who, by her own reckoning, made more than 12,000 songs. n.pr/4vqsi9U
If you are a space nerd you can track the Artemis II mission on this website from NASA www.nasa.gov/missions/art...
So I wrote a blog about research with synthetic users and it increased the traffic to my blog by 33% the largest month to month increase, medium.com/manipande/wh... check it out, and I feel that this fad will fade
Some images from a day of hiking and watching sunset at Joshua Tree national park, go visit one and support the local community and park rangers
I was so close to believing that United flights can be on time but alas now stuck in plane after landing at LAX
Read my spicy take on conducting research with synthetic users, I don't recommend it medium.com/p/bf564153f525
New feature on Google Slides beautify slide should be renamed to uglify slide based on output
I tested Claude Cowork to change design of my research portfolio to Apple liquid design, output was not useful and I ran out of credits and as a test I gave it to Gamma also and that was better but too cheeky & not useful #claude #cowork
Whole Foods has gone down the toilet in customer service to save every penny only self checkout lanes in Los Altos don’t they believe in employing humans any more
In grad school I once spent hours debugging a missing semicolon in SAS. Yesterday I gave Cursor a raw SPSS file, no codebook, and it ran a full regression and discrimination analysis from plain English prompts in an hour barrier to quant research just disappeared #cursor
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This game is a snooze fest #superbowl
I am tried of reading docs that are written by ChatGPT it's so easy to tell, forget the em dash, the best way to describe the tone and language is banal, it's so average that it's absolutely uninteresting and lacking any originality. AI Slop is exhausting.
Wrote another blog post on how Gen AI is changing research and design leadership - happy to have combined my two loves - space and research for this blog
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Took a short R&R trip to wine country, thankful for living in beautiful California where mountains, ocean beaches and wineries are all driving distance
Here is my take on how AI tools can help with UX research and where they fail manipande.medium.com/uxr-is-dead-...
Seriously @workday.com has one of the worst UX so hard to use it as a manager, why do I need to run a report to see if my Head count was created, it was designed for admins, made self serve, but that chasm remains
At the top, a participant of the Mascara Festival smiles while wearing traditional attire. In the bottom, people smiling and dancing during the Sandurot Festival. Text says: Happy 25th birthday, Wikipedia!
Twenty-five years ago, Wikipedia was an unlikely idea: a place where anyone could share free knowledge.
Today, it’s one of the most visited sites on Earth, not powered by corporate ads, but by people.
Today is @wikipedia.org 25th birthday, it continues to be one of the best source of information on the Internet. Please take a minute and donate to Wikipedia to continue their mission. donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
Has anyone experienced this, Apple Watch is clocking more calories spend in same exercise routine this year wow I can spend almost 160 calories with 30 minutes on elliptical and it used to be closer to 100
My LinkedIn feed is full of people with updates about starting a new job, heartening to see folks getting new jobs, job market in tech has been hard
I asked Claude @anthropic.com some easy questions about passport card renewal and it hallucinated and gave me several incorrect responses
Happy 2026!! Hope it's a great year for everyone.
Every medicine has a high copay even if it's a tier 1 medicine, you think you have got a great plan with $250 deductible but you end up paying so much for medication co-payments and these don't count towards the deductible
There is also a new racket of classifying medications as Tier 1, 2 and 3 and then rejecting any medication that is classified as Tier 2 and 3
This despite the fact that other insurance was also United Health Care and I could see it in my account that it had terminated
United Health Care is an evil company after I got my insurance through my new employer 90% of claims were rejected because they claimed I was still covered under my former employer
To-let sign in India which means available for rent can be confusing to a jet lagged mind
Some photos from Chennai and around, my first time visiting the city, lots of charm and some chaos