Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users
ChatGPT Work is a preview of how a billion people will soon use ChatGPT. I spent days inside it unpacking its design, its tensions, and where it's headed.
Shlok Khemani - Writing
Thoughts on technology, startups, and life by Shlok Khemani
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On the Interaction Acquisition
Poke changed my life, yet I stopped paying for it after a month. Reflections on what Interaction built, why it didn't retain users, and the sale to Cognition.
Fable 5: First Impressions
I gave Fable 5 a single vague prompt — 'build me a to-scale 3D Yosemite I can roam' — and it ran further than I could have imagined. Why this model has that 'big model smell.'
ChatGPT's Memory Update Has a Packaging Problem
OpenAI shipped an editable Memory Summary for ChatGPT. After reverse-engineering it, I can't figure out how it makes the product better.
Open-Sourcing Vajra: A Background Coding Agent
On building and open-sourcing Vajra, a background coding agent that works through Linear, GitHub, Slack, and graph-based workflows.
What I Found Interesting in Claude Code's Source
Tactical patterns across prompt architecture, context management, and agent orchestration from Claude Code's leaked source — things you can study, steal, or adapt for your own work.
Google Has Your Data. Gemini Barely Uses It.
Inside Gemini's cautious memory system—and what it costs Google in personal AI.
Anthropic's Opinionated Memory Bet
Anthropic ships native memory as six file operations, betting that models should handle their own retrieval and storage rather than relying on separate systems.
OpenPoke: Recreating Poke's Architecture
Reverse-engineering the Poke assistant and open-sourcing a working prototype of its multi-agent architecture.
Bangalore → Mumbai → Bangalore
Why I'm moving back to Bangalore after 10 months in Mumbai
Claude Memory: A Different Philosophy
How Claude memory works, how it differs from ChatGPT, and what these approaches reveal.
ChatGPT Memory and the Bitter Lesson
I reverse-engineered ChatGPT's memory system to understand what it stores, how it works (spoiler: not RAG!), and why OpenAI built it this way. Complete with prompts you can try yourself.
Seven Weeks in San Francisco
A tech bro's non-tech notes
7 lessons from launching my first AI product
In April, I left my job to build software products with AI tools. My first experiment was Dweli, a personal website builder. Two months later, I launched it and... it didn't feel great. Here are the lessons I learned.
Notes from watching a master at work
Last night, I watched Academy Award-winning musician AR Rahman perform live in concert. What I didn't expect was for it to become a spiritual experience that I simply have to share with the world.
AI is Compressing Crypto Cycles
How AI accelerates software creation, market evaluation, and attention—compressing speculative cycles across crypto.
ChatGPT Deep Research: First Impressions
First impressions of ChatGPT Deep Research from a long-form technical writer: where it excels, where human judgment still matters, and what changes next.
Thinking about aixbt on a Sunday Night
Why aixbt became crypto's most compelling social AI agent—and what its personality, performance, token, and technical design reveal about the category.
Decentralized Compute
On LLM Training, GPUs, Data Centres, and where Crypto fits in
Bitcoin Superconductor
How Chainflip is bringing BTC liquidity on-chain
Sentient AI Models
Monetising Open Source AI
Does Crypto Matter?
How crypto will (and will not) change the world
Actively Validated Services
How EigenLayer is unshackling crypto entrepreneurship
Trusted Enclaves
On TEEs and why they're important
Bootstrapping Networks
Solving the cold start problem with zkTLS
Abstracting Chains
Fixing Crypto UX
The Road to Runes
Charting the long-winded journey to a fungible token standard on Bitcoin.
On Token Migrations
When Tokens Pivot
The Data Must Flow
Easing the struggle for AI data
Danke, Jürgen
To the German who changed my life.
Enter The Sanctum
Everybody gets a stake.
MEV On Solana
Breaking down Jito's mempool rollback
The Heartbeat of a Global State Machine
A deep dive into the importance of and challenges faced by validators on Solana
2023
Reflections, learnings, and setting the stage for the new year.
Multi-Model Apps and OpenRouter
On the need for developers to adopt a multi-model LLM approach and OpenRouter, a service facilitating it
Pricing Models for LLM Apps
A new paradigm in tech requires rethinking how companies price software
A Guide to LLM Capabilities
A practical breakdown of how LLMs work and the new capabilities they unlock
Mardi Himal
Why this Himalayan trek in Nepal has to be your next vacation
Now is the Time to Code
Making a case for why you should learn to code over the next year
On Leaving Web3 Gaming
Some reflections on the space, where I see it going, why I am leaving, and what next
The Zynga Mafia in Web3 Gaming
Zynga is one of the most important companies in the history of gaming. Now, the folks that made it big, are trying to replicate their success on the blockchain.
South Korea: Underrated Leaders in Web3 Gaming
The country has pioneered some of the biggest movements in gaming history. Now, it is right at the forefront of another one
Skyweaver: Fulfilling the Promise of a Crypto Game
Lessons to learn from the dark horse of crypto gaming