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
Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat
or can't they?
and why it matters
It's the only thing that keeps you in the game
How it has been and how I want it to be.
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.
There’s something to be said about working towards achieving a goal without obsessing over how far you’re from it or how hopelessly you’re missing the mark each time. Once you shut out the clamour of result and simply persevere, success is bound to be yours. ― Viswanathan Anand