surya
and his ramblings in the void
hi, i’m surya 👋
i’m an engineer who writes about infra, ML finetuning, and whatever rabbit hole i’ve fallen into this week.
I write all my blogs by hand.
currently at oxen.ai building lightning-fast version control and model finetuning. i publish under my full name, suriya ganesh ayyamperumal.
i like meeting new people — say hi at suriyaganesh097 at gmail.com 🙂
the usual
📚 books i’ve read / am reading
📜 essays
🧑🏻🏫 readlog
🛍 todo
you can find the table of contents here
opinions i’ll defend
- pessimism is defaulting to laziness. optimism is the harder, rarer skill.
- affordances for agents will be inherently different than affordances for humans.
- it is better to copy paste the relevant code, instead of loading a library / framework for it.
the full list of takes, bets, and things i was wrong about is here 🌶
updated on Jul 11, 2026
recent posts
The ecosystem of information exchange, and the attention economy.
literary length and the shrinking of attention span
Eric Jorgenson
Can you just store binaries in postgres?
an intro to cloud for non-software-engineers.
A walk through what is possible with RL drones beating world champions, robots balancing on yoga balls, AIs that paint, fusion reactors, and the ad you saw last Tuesday.
Martin Buber
notes on working with recursions and how to use them better
skillful orchestrators are able to deploy teams of agents to fold time multi-year projects into a few weeks.
keep this in mind
The mind … can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. ― John Milton, Paradise Lost