Est. 2026 · Bengaluru / remote№ 001
The Working Notebook of

Sudharsan
Babu.

AI engineer. I build the boring plumbing that makes intelligent systems actually useful — retrieval, evals, agents, and the small models that live close to the metal. This is where I keep my notes.

Shipping daily·Now training kavi-v0.3·Reading: Everyday Things·Open to conversations·Est. 2026·Currently: Bengaluru·Vol. I — Issue 07·
Shipping daily·Now training kavi-v0.3·Reading: Everyday Things·Open to conversations·Est. 2026·Currently: Bengaluru·Vol. I — Issue 07·
Recent dispatches

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  • Today · 21 Jul
    PROGRESS

    Shipped retrieval-augmented eval harness

    Rewired the eval loop to run against a live vector index; latency down 41%, hallucination rate down to 3.2% on the internal benchmark.

  • Yesterday
    NOTE

    On the smell of overfitting

    A short piece on when a model is memorising versus reasoning, and the three signals I look for before I stop training.

  • Sun · 19 Jul
    PROJECT

    Kavi — a small language model for Tamil poetry

    First readable output. It rhymed. Badly. But it rhymed.

Selected work

Things I've
built lately

A short catalogue. Some finished, most still moving. All documented in the log.

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Correspondence

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