Projects · Jinto Jose

Data OG. Product Head.
Now shipping AI.

13+ years in data systems. Years leading product. Now building AI-native applications — because the best PMs eventually ship the thing themselves.

Blog · Jinto Jose

Notes from building in the open.

Product, data and AI — first published here, then shared on LinkedIn. Everything lives in one GitHub repo. RSS

October 2026

27 Oct
The work did not disappear. It moved upstream
89% of the scope in my habit-tracker app was built by an agent. The other 11% took the most thought: pricing, product taste, killing an idea I'd argued…
1 min
22 Oct
My one-person software factory
118 story points in 3 days. My original sprint plan had spread them over 6 sprints. That came from my habit-tracker app, built mostly by a coding agent. But…
1 min
20 Oct
Four companies, four AI-native SDLCs
4 companies published their take on the AI-native software lifecycle in the last few months: Anthropic, Atlassian, Google Cloud and Shopify. I read them…
1 min
03 Oct
Four shifts I'm carrying back from Paris
Two days at AI Engineer Paris, hosted by Mistral, showed me that the model is no longer the story. The story is everything around it. I spent two days at AI…
4 min

September 2026

24 Sep
Two days at AI Engineer Paris, hosted by Mistral
Two days at AI Engineer Paris, hosted by Mistral. A strategy team from a bank, in a hall full of engineers, researchers and builders. That used to feel like…
1 min
16 Sep
Prioritisation is a leadership habit, not a one-time framework
Most teams treat prioritisation like a meeting. They schedule it, run a scoring exercise, produce a ranked list — and then don't revisit it until something…
4 min

June 2026

06 Jun
Why I started building again
I've worked with data for most of my career. And for most of that career, there was always a missing piece — we could collect it, store it, model it. But…
2 min