Research × building
Halooo, I’m Akilesh.
I build and study the machinery behind intelligent products—from inference serving and distributed training to model evaluation. I write down what I discover so I don’t forget it—and so the internals of AI feel approachable to anyone curious enough to look inside.
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What a benchmark cannot tell you
On the gap between a passing evaluation and a useful product.
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Building the smallest version that can teach you something
A practical way to separate an experiment from a disguised production system.
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