The Agent Economy: Tokens as Bandwidth, Apps for Agents
A reasoned view of the agent economy: what is changing, where agent-mediated software is headed, and what product teams should build for next.
Crowdlisten
Crowd insights for agent execution.
Crowdlisten
Crowd insights for agent execution.
Work focus: Multimodal content understanding, context specs for agents
Turning Audience Insight Into Agent-Ready Specs
CrowdListen converts raw user conversation into structured product insight and agent-ready PM specs, preserving intent from feedback signal to executable task.
Feature Extraction & Multimodal Content Understanding
Fine-grained social listening for understanding crowd conversations: a framework for turning fragmented, high-volume social discussion into weighted signal and agent-ready product action.
Microsoft
Understanding what types of problems demand agentic solutions, how to build them, and pitfalls to avoid.
Work focus: Agent system for estimating cost with consumption based pricing
Iterating at the Pace of AI
Two approaches to building agentic experiences: platform-first vs scenario-first. How AI coding tools enable faster prototyping, PRD clarity, and cross-functional collaboration for agent workflows.
Northwestern (DTR)
Improving and scaling self-regulation skill coaching through AI agent systems.
Work focus: Regulation informed learning, case library enabled diagnosis and intervention
Building AI That Actually Understands How Students Learn
How we built an LLM system that identifies student learning gaps and connects them with peers who've solved similar problemsβscaling personalized mentorship through AI that understands the nuances of how people actually learn.
Aibrary
Exploring knowledge representation and agentic AI for lifelong learning.
Work focus: Search, Recommendation, Agent interfaces for knowledge distillation and communication
When Knowledge Becomes Fluid: How AI Transforms Learning
Exploring how generative AI transforms static knowledge into dynamic, adaptive learning experiences. From fixed formats to fluid, contextual understanding that reshapes education and content consumption.
Deciding the Right Question Is More Important Than the Answer
When problems are ambiguous, the limiting factor is often not answer quality but question quality. This piece explores why framing better questions is the real leverage point in AI-assisted thinking and product work.
Content Platforms Will Become Distribution-by-Generation Systems
As generation costs collapse, distribution shifts from routing static content to generating the right content instance for each context. This post argues that future content platforms will distribute by generation, not retrieval.
TikTok
Exploring what it means to be creative amidst the wave of AI generated content.
Work focus: Symphony Assistant, Insight Spotlight, GenAI For Ads, AI Content Understanding
Essence of Creativity: Future of Creative Work
Exploring the intersection of AI-generated content and human creativity. Analysis of creative workflows, multimodal interactions, and the future of content creation in the AI era.
Multi-modal Creative Ad Generation
Development of TikTok Symphony Assistant - an AI-powered creative tool for generating ad scripts and video content. Agentic workflows and interface optimization for automated creative generation.
Why Context is Everything in AI Content Generation
Why context is the critical factor in AI content quality - moving beyond single-prompt expectations to rich, contextual content generation that adapts to individual needs and cognitive patterns.
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