Summary
Armand Ruiz is the VP of AI Platform at IBM. He has over 16 years of experience in AI and has amassed over 200,000 LinkedIn followers for his insights on AI agents, open-source AI, and product management.
Key Facts
- VP of AI Platform at IBM.
- Expert in AI agents, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), and enterprise AI deployment.
- Advocates for technical literacy for all tech workers and leaders.
- Believes in “building and showing” (prototyping) over just writing PRDs.
- Bullish on open-source AI for enterprise flexibility and control.
From AI Agents for PMs in 69 Minutes — Masterclass with IBM VP
- AI agents deliver the “wall of automation” that unlocks business output.
- Building blocks of an AI agent: Thinking, Planning, Action, Reflection.
- RAG is a core component of agentic systems, allowing access to updated enterprise data.
- Vision RAG is critical for understanding charts and tables in unstructured documents.
- Evals should be integrated at every step of the agentic pipeline, not just at the end.
- Product management is evolving; PMs should leverage AI agents for competitive analysis, feedback prioritization, and prototyping.