The Problem Is...
Vivek VaidyaSolve the right problems. Musings on startups, tech, leadership, data+AI, and more from serial entrepreneur Vivek Vaidya.
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Beyond the Agent Framework: Two Layers Every AI-native Production App Needs
A year ago, most LLM features in production were one model call wrapped in a prompt. That’s no longer the shape of the work. Teams are building agents now, on pydantic-ai and others, and the average production feature is a graph of model ca...
A Parlour Puzzle, a Prussian City, and the Architecture of Everything
A few weeks ago I introduced Lutchet, a project I’ve been building to teach math and CS the way I wish I’d learned it: problem first, concept second, history as the through-line. We dug into Alan Turing and the Bayes Theorem, and Claude Sha...
The Textbook Gets It Backwards
I’ve been thinking about this for a long time.
Not building it, thinking about it. The itch goes back to high school and IIT Delhi, where I spent many years being handed definitions, theorems, and proofs in that order. Memorize the abstrac...
Your AI Stack Needs a Control Plane
I’ve been away for a while. A health scare last year forced me to step back from work and writing for the better part of 12 months. I shared the full story on LinkedIn a few months ago. I’ve been back for a few months, feeling strong, build...
What’s luck got to do with it?
This past May, I was thrilled about the chance to visit my alma mater — IIT Delhi — and join their podcast.
During that chat, I was reminded again of how much luck has played such an integral role in my entire journey.
Today, I want to...
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I am a serial entrepreneur and technology leader who has built industry-leading companies in enterprise software, data management, analytics, and machine learning/AI over the last 25 years.
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