Trust Is a Systems Property
Most conversations about AI end up in the same place: larger models, better architectures, more compute. Those advances expand what AI systems can do. They don't necessarily tell us when those systems should be trusted.
From Enterprise Engineer to AI Researcher
Four years ago, I joined Bank of America as a fresher. This month, I concluded that chapter and committed to an M.S. in Artificial Intelligence at Columbia University. This is what that transition actually looked like from the inside.
What Building an LLM Control System Actually Taught Me
I built token-level observability, instability detection, and a closed-loop controller for LLM generation. The control loop reduced instability events — but it didn't improve the composite reliability score. That turned out to be the real lesson.
When Detection Works Perfectly and Recovery Doesn't
I built a drift-aware fraud detection pipeline with automated retraining. Detection worked. Governance worked. But the system couldn't recover — because the recovery process had no new information to learn from.
Evaluating Cultural Alignment as a Dose-Response Problem
Most alignments are tested as binary pass/fails. But what if we treat inference shaping like a pharmaceutical trial? Testing a 3-tier prompt gradient on a Qwen 2.5-7B live proxy yielded a perfect monotonic dose-response curve.
Building an Indian Multilingual LLM: Why I Had to Solve Reliability First
The goal was a multilingual LLM for Indian conversational patterns. Before I could build it properly, I had to figure out whether the model I was building on top of could be trusted at all.
Why Production Debugging Is an Underrated Skill
Most engineers learn to build things. The skill that actually separates good engineers from great ones is knowing what to do when something breaks at 3 AM.
Top 4.1% on Kaggle: Lessons That Transferred to Production
I hit Notebooks Expert ranked #2,441 — personal best #707. Here's what 34 notebooks actually taught me, and why almost none of it was about machine learning.