I realized my product management routine felt repetitive, and a late-night curiosity about AI evals unexpectedly pulled me into a completely different direction.
Reading an AI evaluation paper sparked a strange excitement, making me question why models behave uniquely and how their reasoning actually works.
The more I explored AI evals, the less my usual PM tasks felt meaningful, creating a slow but steady emotional shift inside me.
Testing model behavior felt like solving living puzzles, giving me a new energy I didn’t feel for years in product management.
Small experiments with prompts turned into long nights of curiosity, and exploring AI reasoning soon became my favorite obsession without any force.
PM meetings, documentation, and constant alignment calls slowly lost their charm as AI evals began giving me deeper purpose and excitement daily.
Understanding hallucinations, prompt sensitivity, and reasoning failures made the AI world feel alive, pulling me away from my predictable product management responsibilities.
The transition wasn’t sudden; it was built from small realizations that I wanted challenge, growth, and discovery instead of endless product cycles.
I realized many PM skills—structured thinking, curiosity, problem-breaking—helped me understand model behavior, making the shift surprisingly natural and empowering.
Moving from product management to AI evals became the best decision, giving me passion, direction, and a truly exciting sense of personal transformation.