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
Frodo: “It’s a pity Bilbo didn’t kill Gollum when he had the chance.”
Gandalf: “Pity? It’s a pity that stayed Bilbo’s hand. Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends. My heart tells me that Gollum has some part to play in it, for good or evil, before this is over. The pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many.”
Frodo: “I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.”
Gandalf: “So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us. There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides that of evil. Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, in which case you were also meant to have it. And that is an encouraging thought.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring