Aashish Jagini — WritingEssays on PM craft, AI tooling, and the small systems I build for myself.https://aashishj.com/en-usMy PM Operating System, Eight Months Laterhttps://aashishj.com/writing/pm-os-eight-months-later/https://aashishj.com/writing/pm-os-eight-months-later/What changed after I built a personal operating system for PM work: the tasks moved to Jira, a one-screen Today view replaced the morning wall of text, and the system started fixing itself.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTI Built a PM Operating System in One Afternoonhttps://aashishj.com/writing/pm-os/https://aashishj.com/writing/pm-os/Managing 30–50 things across five product areas without the fragmentation tax — an AI-assisted operating layer that separates PM actions from team deliverables.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTMy AI Bot Kept Telling People to Go Awayhttps://aashishj.com/writing/ai-bot-deflection/https://aashishj.com/writing/ai-bot-deflection/Finding the bug was easy. Proving I'd fixed it nearly fooled me — a lesson in trusting decision-time logs over replay.Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe $22-a-Month Sentiment Pipelinehttps://aashishj.com/writing/sentiment-pipeline/https://aashishj.com/writing/sentiment-pipeline/Adding LLM-powered quality measurement to an AI product — as a single SQL column, with no ML infrastructure — plus the taxonomy disaster in the middle.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTYour AI Metric Is Meaningless Without a Benchmarkhttps://aashishj.com/writing/ai-metric-benchmark/https://aashishj.com/writing/ai-metric-benchmark/The same number can read as great, fine or not enough depending entirely on the yardstick — and sourcing the yardstick is the real work.Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTSeparate Measurement From Interpretationhttps://aashishj.com/writing/measurement-vs-interpretation/https://aashishj.com/writing/measurement-vs-interpretation/The cleanest dashboards give numbers one home and meaning another — evidence and narrative should connect, not compete.Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Best Infrastructure Is No Infrastructurehttps://aashishj.com/writing/no-infrastructure/https://aashishj.com/writing/no-infrastructure/I inherited a status page that lied through every outage. I fixed it by deleting the whole pipeline and replacing it with one config entry.Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTYour AI Doesn't Need a Data Dump — It Needs the Right Querieshttps://aashishj.com/writing/right-queries-not-data-dump/https://aashishj.com/writing/right-queries-not-data-dump/Rewiring a weekly report from a manual CSV export to targeted live queries made it faster, fully automated, and far more reliable.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Most Expensive Line of Code Is a Hardcoded Pathhttps://aashishj.com/writing/hardcoded-path/https://aashishj.com/writing/hardcoded-path/A colleague's internal tool ran fine on his machine and crashed for everyone else. The cause — and the one-line habit that prevents it.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTStop Re-Explaining Yourself to Your AI — Write It a Rulehttps://aashishj.com/writing/write-your-ai-a-rule/https://aashishj.com/writing/write-your-ai-a-rule/If you keep giving your assistant the same feedback, that's a missing rule, not a one-off. Also: why 'short' and 'clear' aren't the same goal.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTExec Feedback Is a Symptom, Not a Spechttps://aashishj.com/writing/exec-feedback-symptom/https://aashishj.com/writing/exec-feedback-symptom/A senior leader kept reacting to a system without giving requirements. The job wasn't to guess what they wanted — it was to translate 'this feels off' into a concrete, shrinking decision.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTI Built a Second Brain That Actually Talks Backhttps://aashishj.com/writing/brain-system/https://aashishj.com/writing/brain-system/A self-hosted personal AI memory server, $0/month, that every AI tool I use can search.Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT