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Praval 0.7.22 had the agent system I wanted.

I have been thinking about search as a primitive for a while.

There is a lot of noise in the present state of AI discourse.

Opening / Frame The strange pull toward AI for "thinking something through" — wanting friction but secretly wanting reassurance The AI almost always tells you you're on the right track The agreeableness is not incidental — it is trained in via RLHF/human…

I have a mental model of what a successful human-AI collaboration may look like.

Vajra-BM25 v0.5.0 was a major improvement over the first Python vector implementation.

Update (Mar 4, 2026): A follow-up with vajra-search v0.2.1 build improvements and refreshed ZVec corpus-scale benchmarks is here: Vajra Search v0.2.1 update.

Vajra BM25 started as an experiment in using category theory to organize a search engine's code.

AI is here to stay and is redefining the landscape of personal productivity, and I think that it is also transforming the very nature of human endeavour and striving.

I was reading about Alexander Grothendieck recently, and there was an anecdote that despite being one of the premier mathematicians of his era, contributing a credible and large volume of work in algebra, he often struggled with arithmetic.

A clock is a computer that performs modular arithmetic.

2025 Year in Review: AI Explorations It is December, 2025 and I find myself reflecting on a very eventful year for me - a year of prolific building, exploration, reflection and scaling up - both at work and in terms of technical and intellectual side proj…

Random Seeds and Training Trajectories Every neural network training run begins with a random seed.

I spent the last few months building Vajra BM25, a search engine that uses category theory as its organizing principle.

Jorge Luis Borges' short story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" describes a fictional world where the inhabitants speak a language with no nouns - only verbs.

The factory floor has a dashboard problem.

Research has a privacy problem that nobody talks about.

Over the last several months, I have been building and developing Praval, a Pythonic agentic AI framework for multi-agent system development.

As Bertrand Russell said, "Men are born ignorant, not stupid.

Many interesting narratives populate the philosophical discourse around artificial intelligence, not the least of which is the potential of artificial intelligence to replace humans in different endeavors.