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Hari Balaji
I build AI systems for the enterprise: agents, LLM stacks, and the plumbing that decides whether they can be trusted. A decade of derivatives before that. Writing here since 2010.
$ whoami builder of enterprise AI systems; recovering derivatives guy $ cat focus.yml now: - agentic systems and LLM stacks - generative AI × fintech - crypto rabbit holes before: - a decade of derivatives elsewhere: - sci-fi shelves, eclectic playlists $
01Working notes on AI
All AI essaysDreams of an Agentic Future
Imagining what the world will look like in 2026
Winnie the Pooh - Revisiting The Hundred Acre Wood with AI
Using AI to continue the legacy of A A Milne and Peter Dennis
The LLM stack is slowly emerging
The LLM stack is slowly emerging Python vs JS Langchain or LlamaIndex (which wraps Langchain and then some) Pinecone vs Chroma vs 20 other Vectorstores OpenAI...
Harnessing Hallucinations - Guiding LLMs to Success
Large Language Models (LLMs) constantly hallucinate, sometimes producing accurate and profound outputs, but often going awry. For most, building on top of existing lar...
Reading the GPT leaves - Making sense of LLMs as a CXO
Is ChatGPT a fad? As a CXO how much should you really care?
Where are the New Computer Overlords?
Using a cricket example to examine Google's continued dominance post the advent of IBM Watson and why LLMs might succeed where IBM Watson failed.
02Field notes and data experiments
More data posts03Latest writing
Full archiveCan Mahatma Gandhi lie to Pinocchio?
Can Gandhiji lie and can Pinocchio speak the truth? Let’s put jev to the test. Jev Decides between Mahatma Gandhi and Pinocchio Here is a...
The Long Way Back
How a team bowled out for 36 crossed four Tests and a continent to break the one fortress that does not fall
Winnie the Pooh - Revisiting The Hundred Acre Wood with AI
Using AI to continue the legacy of A A Milne and Peter Dennis
In Which Pooh Tries to Save An Afternoon
In Which Pooh Tries to Save the Afternoon
Dreams of an Agentic Future
Imagining what the world will look like in 2026
Countercultural Copernicus
We need to think like Copernicus, but about culture & not science
Piyush Gupta talks to Dr Vasant Dhar about AI
The Enterprise Journey with AI & Dystopia
Leads from your network are a blurse
Should you tap your network for your early customers?
54 post articles, 7 pages.
04Bookshelf
All book notesIn Which Pooh Tries to Save An Afternoon
In Which Pooh Tries to Save the Afternoon
Winnie the Pooh - Revisiting The Hundred Acre Wood with AI
Using AI to continue the legacy of A A Milne and Peter Dennis
Countercultural Copernicus
We need to think like Copernicus, but about culture & not science