Othello Autoresearch
An AI agent teaches a small GPT to play Othello five minutes at a time, then a probe reveals the board it built inside.
Todd Sherman
Hi, I’m Todd.I’ve spent my career building consumer products that shape how people create, discover, and connect. Today, I'm a senior director of product management leading Instagram’s Creators organization. Previously, I led Instagram Relevance and founded YouTube Shorts, taking it from its first prototype to more than 2 billion monthly users and 200 billion daily views. Earlier, I worked on Stories at Snapchat and tweets at Twitter, where I helped make tweets longer. My work has spanned zero-to-one product creation, growth, content ecosystems, recommendation systems, and turning advances in AI into products people use every day. This site is where I share the smaller projects I build to learn: AI prototypes, hardware experiments, games, tools, and other explorations driven by curiosity.
Explore the projectsWaves of Video Disruption
An interactive timeline of how video production, distribution, and consumption have changed.
Yosemite Trip Planner
A trip-planning tool with crowd forecasts, weather, and campsite availability by park zone.
China: U.S. Treasuries vs. Gold
A data exploration of China’s changing U.S. Treasury holdings and official gold reserves.
Spec Builder Prompt
A structured interview prompt that turns a product idea into a detailed spec for coding agents.
The Risk Matrix
A practical explainer for framing a risk, scoring its likelihood and severity, and buying it down.
Market Indicators
A sourced collection of widely cited market indicators, with calculations and limitations.
Skeleton Key Prompt
An interview-style prompt that helps turn a rough idea into a more useful prompt.
Copenhagen Bike Flow
A modeled summer Sunday of bicycle traffic across Copenhagen, compressed into sixty seconds.
