Blog
Long-form writing on AI, machine learning, and things I'm exploring.
- 2026-04-12 — Hermes Agent - Complete Mental Model
- 2026-04-08 — Inference Engineering - The Architecture and Economics — The true product - the mechanism that dictates user experience, commercial viability, and operational scalability-is the token pipeline.
- 2026-04-05 — The Bottom Rung Is Gone
- 2026-03-31 — React Legend Solved The Web's Oldest Performance Bottleneck
- 2026-03-28 — China Is Open-Sourcing AI - Because the Model Isn’t the Product Anymore
- 2026-03-14 — Why the Internet Is Making You Stupid ? — We have engineered a digital environment that actively prevents learning.
- 2026-03-12 — The Man Who Breaks Every AI In Hours — At 10:30 AM on May 13, 2024, OpenAI launched GPT-4o. It was their most capable model ever, trained with safety mechanisms the team had spent months hardening. By 2:29 PM that same day, it was broken.
- 2026-03-11 — AutoResearch: Karpathy Taught an AI to Do ML Research. Overnight. On One GPU. — What happens when you give Claude 3.5 Sonnet a git repo, a GPU, and the instruction to "just do science" ?
- 2025-06-30 — How I Got a Local LLM to Answer from My Data — I'm a software engineer and have experience shipping projects that utilize AI models via APIs. However, I had less direct experience with the specifics of training models. My goal was to take a local LLM and have it answer questions based on a custom dataset, a common task that turned out to have more nuance than I initially expected. This post documents my process, the initial incorrect assumptions I made, and the working RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline I ended up with.
- 2025-06-15 — Code as Meditation — A distilled collection of the most profound, poetic, and mind-bending lines from Rick Rubin’s The Way of Code
- 2025-04-05 — Key Takeaways from P T Barnum's - The Art of Money Getting — A collection of principles and observations noted from the book, preserved for reference.
- 2024-10-20 — Hybrid Intelligence — My Highlights From The Book - Digital Dharma By Deepak Sharma
- 2024-06-22 — MY HIGHLIGHTS FROM 'THE ANTHOLOGY OF BALAJI' - PART 1
- 2024-06-21 — Quick Fix - Getting DeepSeekCoder-V2 to Respond in English Instead Of Chinese
- 2024-06-12 — 100% Decentralization is a Myth
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