🌿 A Manifesto on Work and Life — Rediscovered in a College Attic
Handwritten notes, unearthed years later from a dusty college attic box, sparked this reflection on what it means to work, to live, and to find alignment between the two.
I work on agentic AI at LinkedIn — mostly evaluation, context engineering, and the unglamorous parts of getting agents to survive contact with real users. Before that, inference and recommender infrastructure. Before that, a liberal arts degree in computer science, mathematics and statistics, and two honors theses I still think about.
I write here about what breaks: single-step evals that pass while the twenty-step agent fails, papers that turn into exactly one engineering decision, and formal methods that turned out to be load-bearing for AI.
I also maintain a few open source packages — ccrvam, chipfiring and QuantileFlow.
My operating principle is one borrowed phrase: stay green. Curious enough to ask the obvious question in a room full of experts, and hands-on enough to go test the answer that night.
Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics
Amherst College
Handwritten notes, unearthed years later from a dusty college attic box, sparked this reflection on what it means to work, to live, and to find alignment between the two.
Reflections on my Amherst College journey—triple-majoring in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics while building communities, writing two theses, and discovering what it means to lead and to learn.
Insights from OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, Andrej Karpathy, Elon Musk, and others on the evolving AI landscape, startup defensibility, agent-based systems, and next-gen product development.
Learning internals of LLMs and its components!