suriya

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. no ai wrote any of this.

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 hi at suriya.cc 🙂

🔥 controversial opinions i have

• Pessimism is defaulting to laziness; optimism is the harder, rarer skill.
• Say “no” to more obligations and defend your time.
• You should have enemies.

🔁 things i changed my mind about

• What Language you speak is important.
• Everyone should be running towards a goal or dream all the time
• College Degree actually matters

🤦 stuff i was completely wrong about

• You’ll have to work weekends to win.
• One guy hacking away in the back can build a lasting product.
• Building software in Untyped Languages is fine.

🎲 predictions i’m betting on

• affordances for agents will be inherently different than affordances for humans.
• Probabilistic software systems are going to be the most deployed type of software.
• RL is going to be a very important paradigm

🧪 experiments that didn’t work

• Building an always on Ai agent to teach languages. learnings here
• Marketplace for artworks.
• Employee Analytics for companies to better retain people.

🤫 things nobody told me about software

• It is better to copy paste the relevant code, instead of loading a library / framework for it.
• Everything is just a text representation of binary data
• all protocols are synthetic and will have nuances / bugs

updated on, Jun, 13 2026

the usual

📚 books i’ve read / am reading

📜 essays

🧑🏻‍🏫 readlog

🛍 todo

you can find the table of contents here

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