About

Portrait of Hari Balaji

Hello. I’m Hari.

By day I design and build AI systems for enterprises: agentic workflows, LLM stacks, and the plumbing underneath that decides whether any of it can be trusted. Before this I spent a decade structuring financial derivatives, which turns out to be useful training for working with confident models that are sometimes wrong.

The rest of the time I read. Science fiction mostly, though the bookshelf disputes the word “mostly”. I fall down musical rabbit holes, poke at datasets for fun, and watch more Test cricket than a reasonable adult should.

This site is the paper trail, kept since 2010. Essays on AI and agents, data experiments, book notes, and one cricket series that still raises my pulse. Start with the AI essays, or wander the archive.

As Douglas Adams said, “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” Thanks for dropping by.

Generative Truchet tile field in the site's palette

truchet-field.svg — generated in this site's palette, after two essays on Truchet tilings and hexagonal tiles. The mark in the header and the favicon are the same tiles, arranged kindly.

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Set in Fraunces, Newsreader, and IBM Plex Mono on aged paper. Built with Jekyll, hosted on GitHub Pages, written by a human with occasional robot assistance.