Writing
Write-ups on the systems I build: agents, RAG, evals, and the occasional war story.
A blind benchmark against four deep-research products - DAR won. Here's the architecture.
Ask four deep research products the same hard question and you get four flavors of the same disappointment. Here's how I built DAR, an agentic research harness that won a blind benchmark against Perplexity, Gemini, Tavily, and Exa.
The jump from useful to real requires three things almost nobody does.
2,000 users in 24 hours. That wasn't the surprising part. Here's how I designed AI personas that feel real, with situation design, trust-gated context, and the blind spot mechanics no one talks about.
2+ hours of daily browsing compressed into 15-minute focused reading sessions.
How I automated my daily learning routine with 4 simple Perplexity Tasks that deliver curated news, AI research, and system design insights, cutting 2+ hours of browsing into 15-minute focused reading sessions.
A practical, personalized study companion that won the Google GenAI Exchange Hackathon.
How a team of two built CASCADE, a personalized GenAI study companion that adapts to individual learning patterns, and won the Google GenAI Exchange Hackathon 2024.
