Rahul Bala — Product Manager, AI Products & Content PlatformsProduct manager with experience across enterprise SaaS, multilingual consumer products, and AI-assisted content systems. Case studies on LLM evals, product reliability, and India-scale products.https://rahulbala.com/en-inLet the field overrule the roadmaphttps://rahulbala.com/blog/field-research-over-the-roadmap/https://rahulbala.com/blog/field-research-over-the-roadmap/When observed user behaviour should change what you build, and how to make field research cheap enough to run every cycle, from Lokal to a newsroom.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTKilling a content cluster on evidencehttps://rahulbala.com/blog/killing-a-cluster-on-evidence/https://rahulbala.com/blog/killing-a-cluster-on-evidence/A question-page cluster built on a sound theory, then deindexed by Google. When to stop a reasonable bet, what counts as a verdict, and what to keep.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTRunning a one-person product portfoliohttps://rahulbala.com/blog/one-person-product-portfolio/https://rahulbala.com/blog/one-person-product-portfolio/How I split one person's evenings across several live products: what gets built, what gets automated, what gets killed, and the metric that decides.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTShipping native apps as a PM, with AI writing the codehttps://rahulbala.com/blog/shipping-native-apps-as-a-pm/https://rahulbala.com/blog/shipping-native-apps-as-a-pm/When a PM should build the product themselves, and what changes about scope, quality and ownership once AI writes the code and the release is yours.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTHybrid LLM Evaluation: Let Code Count, Let Models Judgehttps://rahulbala.com/blog/hybrid-llm-evaluation/https://rahulbala.com/blog/hybrid-llm-evaluation/Which parts of 'good' to give code and which to an LLM judge: per-dimension weights, hard caps, and publish bands as product decisions.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLanguage Is Product, Not Localizationhttps://rahulbala.com/blog/language-is-product-not-localization/https://rahulbala.com/blog/language-is-product-not-localization/Building for India's languages at ShareChat, Lokal, and a multilingual newsroom taught me that language changes the product, not just its strings.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTLLM Evals for Product Managers: A Field Guidehttps://rahulbala.com/blog/llm-evals-for-product-managers/https://rahulbala.com/blog/llm-evals-for-product-managers/A practical guide to LLM evaluation for PMs — decision-first design, golden sets, judge calibration, hybrid scoring, and regression protection.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe Day My LLM Judge Drifted — and How I Caught Ithttps://rahulbala.com/blog/the-day-my-llm-judge-drifted/https://rahulbala.com/blog/the-day-my-llm-judge-drifted/My LLM judge quietly inflated scores and re-ranked my configs. The before/after data, the fix, and what a PM should require before trusting a judge.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTWhen Constrained Generation Beats Open Generationhttps://rahulbala.com/blog/when-constrained-generation-beats-open-generation/https://rahulbala.com/blog/when-constrained-generation-beats-open-generation/Lessons from shipping AI in a multilingual newsroom and running an eval-gated content pipeline: constrain the failure surface, not the model's talent.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTTIL: Astro content collections give you typed frontmatter for freehttps://rahulbala.com/til/astro-content-collections-typed-frontmatter/https://rahulbala.com/til/astro-content-collections-typed-frontmatter/Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT