https://vamsinarla.com/Recent content on Vamsi Narla — CTO, Engineering & Product Leaderhttps://vamsinarla.com/images/og-default.pnghttps://vamsinarla.com/images/og-default.pngHugo -- 0.146.0en-usWed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/matrix-helicopter-scene/Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/matrix-helicopter-scene/Why adding skills to my agentic codebase reminds me of the 'Not yet' line in The Matrix.https://vamsinarla.com/ai-coding-journey/Sun, 10 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/ai-coding-journey/Climbing the AI-coding ladder isn't a tooling problem. Each step is a mindset shift — and the muscle that helped me most was managing engineers, not writing code.https://vamsinarla.com/prompt-context-harness/Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/prompt-context-harness/Three layers shape AI output: the prompt, the context, and the harness. The model itself is the most visible variable, but rarely the most consequential.https://vamsinarla.com/efq-for-automation-decisions/Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/efq-for-automation-decisions/The prioritization framework I built for product decisions translates directly to automation and agentic AI builds.https://vamsinarla.com/team-organization-and-ownership/Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/team-organization-and-ownership/A 4D model for drawing the boxes of areas of ownershiphttps://vamsinarla.com/simulating-interviews/Fri, 21 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/simulating-interviews/The gap between knowing and doing. Between theory and pressure.https://vamsinarla.com/ai-interviewers/Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/ai-interviewers/78% of candidates chose AI over human interviewers. Here's what the research found.https://vamsinarla.com/once-in-a-lifetime/Sat, 27 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/once-in-a-lifetime/The one-time software movement and why lifetime purchases are making a comeback.https://vamsinarla.com/the-maslow-test/Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/the-maslow-test/Why interview prep? A job cuts across every single level of Maslow's hierarchy.https://vamsinarla.com/youre-absolutely-right-test/Fri, 18 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/youre-absolutely-right-test/AI coding has 10x my ship velocity. The new skill is iterative interrogation until you reach the simplest working solution.https://vamsinarla.com/building-an-seo-strategy-without-breaking-the-bank/Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/building-an-seo-strategy-without-breaking-the-bank/I spent 2 days building the 'perfect' SEO workflow and threw it all away for something 10x simplerhttps://vamsinarla.com/why-your-llm-results-are-inconsistent/Fri, 20 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/why-your-llm-results-are-inconsistent/After speaking with dozens of founders building AI-powered products, I've noticed a pattern - they're not controlling the temperature parameter.https://vamsinarla.com/build-the-foundation/Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/build-the-foundation/The 1% better every day math is inspiring. It's also not how improvement actually works.https://vamsinarla.com/hello-world/Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/hello-world/Welcome to my new writing space.https://vamsinarla.com/become-more-effective-at-prioritization/Sun, 31 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/become-more-effective-at-prioritization/Prioritization frameworks and processes are often too rigidhttps://vamsinarla.com/playing-delegation-poker/Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/playing-delegation-poker/One of my favorite management techniques for arriving at how decisions are to be madehttps://vamsinarla.com/getting-comfy-with-the-technical/Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/getting-comfy-with-the-technical/A guide for non technical folks to get more technicalhttps://vamsinarla.com/efq-yet-another-prioritization-framework/Thu, 21 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/efq-yet-another-prioritization-framework/A customer centric approach to decision makinghttps://vamsinarla.com/thoughts-to-keyboard/Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/thoughts-to-keyboard/Welcome to The Lifthttps://vamsinarla.com/three-pillars-of-learning/Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/three-pillars-of-learning/Because learning is a lifelong endeavor...https://vamsinarla.com/a-little-fun-with-food/Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/a-little-fun-with-food/A fun idea for remote teams: emoji lunch descriptionshttps://vamsinarla.com/a-primer-on-ab-testing/Tue, 06 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/a-primer-on-ab-testing/How you can apply this technique and explain the relevant concepts in some depthhttps://vamsinarla.com/day-in-the-life-of-product-manager/Tue, 30 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://vamsinarla.com/day-in-the-life-of-product-manager/A framework for describing what a PM does on a day to day basis