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Chennapragada: Microsoft built the first deep research AI agent for work
“We like, we just built this world's first agent for deep research agent made for work, right? Post train for work.”
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Chennapragada: Prompt sets are replacing PRDs in the AI era
“In this day and age, if you're not prototyping and building to see what you want to build, I think you're doing it wrong. I call it the prompt steps of the new PRDs, right? Like, I really insist on folks saying, if you're building new projects, new features, o…”
Opinion
Chennapragada: 'Coding is dead' is fundamentally wrong; abstraction is just shifting
“A lot of folks think about, oh, you know, don't bother studying computer science, or, you know, the coding is dead, and I just fundamentally disagree. If anything, I think You know, we've always had higher and higher layers of abstraction in programming. You k…”
Opinion
Chennapragada: AI pairs incredible intelligence with AOL dial-up era interfaces
“Today, I feel like there's an opposite problem. I think these things have amazing intelligence, and the interface we have largely is like the AOL, AOL dial-up modem chat bot.”
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Chennapragada: Using mature metrics for zero-to-one products creates false precision
“When you're looking at something zero to one,
If you decide on a metric too prematurely, that's false precision, first of all, right?
Like, you kind of I mean, CTR, when you have, like, thousand people, doesn't mean anything.
you know, retention also may not …”
Opinion
Chennapragada: Independent AI coding tools do not directly threaten GitHub's ecosystem
“And I think the, yeah, the idea again is that, you know, code generation as a tool will unlock lot more products. I mean, they're not all competitors to the fact of they're not all kind of you know doing the same job. I think when you're at the end of the day,…”
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Chennapragada: Consumer PMs fail in enterprise by ignoring governance or crippling UX
“In the enterprise, you almost have every time you think you have one use case, you really do, which is how do you make sure that the feature works well and there's governance of the feature, right? If you think about like even something as simple as sharing a …”
Opinion
Chennapragada: AI is the most compressed tech cycle in history
“This is the most compressed tech cycle that we've ever experienced. Right. It's all in the order of weeks and months versus years and decades. If you think about like mobile and cloud and internet, and there's just like so much happening the intelligence overh…”
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Chennapragada: Autonomy, complexity, and natural interaction will shape successful AI agents
“So I think all three things, the autonomy, the complexity, and the natural interaction are at least product principles that will shape really good ones, good agents.”
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Chennapragada: Conversational interfaces possess invisible grammars and UI elements
“Conversations also have grammars, they have structures, they have UI elements, they're invisible.”
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Chennapragada: Prompts are the new dropdown menus for natural language interfaces
“Prompt itself is a new construct, and that's a new way, that's a new UI element, just like a dropdown was or a menu was.”
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Chennapragada: AI shortens first demos but lengthens full production deployment times
“What I'm seeing is that the time to first demo the is much shorter, right? But the time to like a full deployment is is going to take longer. So I think that there's going to be an uneven cadence.”
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Chennapragada: PMs must shift from creating to taste-making as AI scales
“What I do think on the flip side is the taste making and kind of the edit editing function becomes really, really important, right? In a world where the supply of ideas, supply of prototypes becomes even more like an order of magnitude higher, you'd have to th…”
Disclosure
Chennapragada uses AI to simulate how Satya Nadella will react to pitches
“By the way, that is actually one of my common use cases, which is the WWXD. I call it, what would X do? Like, I used to say, hey what would Satya think about, like, this particular set of conversations or ideas that we are pitching and so on.”
Insight
Chennapragada: 0-to-1 product building requires embracing chaos to avoid local hill climbing
“When you look at the solve stage,
There are wide lurches. You gotta be very comfortable with the fact that you're day one thinking about, hey, a plant detection tool, and then day 15, you're like, oh, actually, the tech is really good for translating, you know…”
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Chennapragada: Category-defining products need two of three major market inflection points
“What I found both the hardware, I would say is that you do want to look for at least two out of these three factors inflection points here, if you want to make a really good product. Number one, is there a shift, is a step function in the tech, right?”
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Chennapragada: Excel Succeeds by Giving Non-Coders Programming Power
“Excel is a proof that non-coders also have to program, right? Programming is really powerful. And it's the tool that gives all of the non-coders a really powerful programming you know, ability.”
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Chennapragada: Current AI product experiences remain largely single-player
“Right now, all of these experiences are very single player, right?”
Disclosure
Chennapragada: Microsoft created simulated companies to test autonomous AI agents
“What we've done is like, we've actually set up in like a comp external, like a fake company and said, Hey, if you are somebody who wants to come play with some of the cutting edge science projects and deep research agents and, you know, agents at work, Come, c…”
