Agentic AI writings

I love getting to share counter intutitve ideas of building agentic AI with other people and I mostly stick to twitter when I write about it. Here’s a small collection of my writings but you can find a lot more if you follow me on twitter.

Traps in building agents

This thread is about some seductive ideas that sounds very smart but are actually a massive waste of time when building agentic AI. You can read through a large discussion that happened on twitter about this

Agentic search is a very difficult unsolved problem and has historically had all different kinds of strategies. The most common ones are Grep and Vector search but each have their pitfalls. Its still unclear to me what the actual answers are here

Reverse Engineering AI tooling

Tons of AI tools are very similar but not quite the same, you can easily untangle by using this reverse proxy technique to take out their prompts

Race to the RL Pipeline

Tons of AI startups would benefit greatly if they could fit into the RL pipeline workflow and this post reflects on how to position startups in this space

Open source model labs

This post is about open source model labs like MiniMax are actually doing extraordinary work with smaller models which are just as good as the larger ones

Doing things and telling people

Many of us are just lurking through the internet and not sharing them thinking our ideas are not worth of sharing and this post explains why sharing ideas is critical not just for yourself but for the world