blog posts
in chronological order
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building and breaking llms from scratch
tech ·i’ve always treated llms as blackbox which help me build non-determinstic workflows in code (read ai agents). attention heads, layernorms, transformers, topk, temperature, feed forward networks, all of these were just buzzwords which i had faint ideas about as i was just using hosted llm inference apis to get the job done but i always wanted to know what’s inside,...
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reflections, 2025
general ·2025 has come to an end. I am 8500 ft above sea level while I am writing this and being tightly hugged by nature and its peaceful breeze is clearing my brain well enough to dump this year’s reflections here. It is only since last year that I’ve started making my yearly checkpoints public and it has made me think...
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building a language instructed robotic assistant
tech ·LIRA: Language Instructed Robotic Assistant. A proof of concept to bridge natural language with physical systems. A secondary goal is to also see if existing agent architecture patterns can extend to hardware tools.
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software engineering in 2025 and beyond
tech ·from reading documentation, scouring stack overflow and watching youtube videos back in late 2023 to having an AI assistant on the side panel of my IDE reading and writing 80-90% of all my code (yes that is the truth) mid 2025, a lot has changed in how we write software. This is more of a personal record and checkpoint of...
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why bangalore
general ·Bangalore has become home. It’s been almost two years since I moved to this city, and no other place has felt this fitting to me. My day starts at 6:30 AM to a chilly breeze coming through my window, birds chirping as the sun begins to peek through the clouds. I put on my running shoes, plug in my earphones,...