shyamal’s space

some opportunities appear first as markets. others as pressure.

the economy is mostly atoms + energy + instructions. atoms are what you want (house, a meal, a road, a phone). energy is what moves atoms. instructions are what tell energy how to move atoms. for the last ~200 years, instructions were scarce. coordination…

clarity is the hidden unfair advantage. when you know exactly what you want to build, you move faster, you avoid the fake work, and you say no to every shiny distraction. most people drift; the ones who get somewhere decide where they’re going and keep ch…

Most startups that try to do both research and product end up doing neither well.

Meetings are expensive.

author’s note: this essay summarizes and synthesizes ideas from the linked pieces and adds my own perspective to extend them. core idea: the next capability jump comes from agents that learn in ongoing experience streams, governed by industrial‑grade eval…

work will re‑orient around what cannot be sped up by more compute. in other words, with general intelligence, work humans do shall migrate to the handful of domains where an extra teraFLOP confers little or no advantage. the thesis is simple: as the cost…

Over the past couple of years at OpenAI, many friends and family have often asked me what the world might look like when AI and agents can do “everything”. it’s a question we’re still collectively wrestling with. while that’s not happening anytime soon, c…

RFT is still in its early days, but it’s a powerful tool - making it surprisingly easy to create expert models for specific domains with less training data.