AI and infra engineer. Writing about AI agents, infrastructure, and building in public.https://srijanshukla.com/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/ai-text-detection-is-a-style-classifier/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/ai-text-detection-is-a-style-classifier/Two generic detectors failed on my content. So I built my own on my own ground truth: pre-2026 posts are human, 2026 posts are machine-written. It scored 44 for 44. Then I attacked it for an evening, drove its verdict on this very post down to 0.313, and packaged the attack as a skill.Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/physics-explainer-whose-lessons-are-unit-tests/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/physics-explainer-whose-lessons-are-unit-tests/How I built Spin Lab, an interactive table-tennis spin course, by keeping the physics pure, precomputing every shot into a frame timeline, and asserting the prose itself in a headless test suite. Plus the calibration bug that proved four of my serves were physically impossible.Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/ai-builder-notes-week-of-june-14-2026/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/ai-builder-notes-week-of-june-14-2026/Notes on agent loops, deterministic workflows, Claude Fable, OpenRouter Fusion, and Google Open Knowledge Format.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/ai-builder-notes-week-of-june-8-2026/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/ai-builder-notes-week-of-june-8-2026/AI-assisted notes from my liked-tweets feed, organized around agent loops, cloud agent infrastructure, skill security, memory, and runtime context.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/notes-on-agent-engineering/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/notes-on-agent-engineering/Notes on agent engineering: what counts as an agent, why long tasks fail, harness design, eval loops, observability, and when teams build vs buy.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/may-ai-builder-newsletter/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/may-ai-builder-newsletter/AI-assisted notes from my liked-tweets feed, organized around agent workflows, browser traces, model loops, and guardrails.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/quantified-self-with-one-agent-and-two-readouts/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/quantified-self-with-one-agent-and-two-readouts/One WhatsApp thread with Hermes Agent captures what I do every 15 minutes and what I eat, writes two JSON files, and this site renders two public readouts from them. Why it works, and why I only track two things.Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/april-ai-builder-newsletter/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/ai/april-ai-builder-newsletter/AI-assisted notes from my liked-tweets feed, organized around harnesses, managed agents, memory, workflow packaging, and enterprise AI work.Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/model-overthinking-is-a-control-problem/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/model-overthinking-is-a-control-problem/High thinking budgets can reduce control, especially when stale context and autonomous tool use mix together.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/what-happened-when-i-let-an-agent-design-shared-skill-sync/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/what-happened-when-i-let-an-agent-design-shared-skill-sync/One skills repo, two laptops, five agent runtimes. I let an agent design the sync, and every unstated decision gave it room to optimize for control instead of maintainability.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/alpha/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/alpha/IAM policy rightsizing agent with AI-powered risk signals and instant rollback.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/chat-harvest/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/chat-harvest/Local-first archive for AI chat traces across agents, designed as a substrate for DSPy/GEPA-style optimization loops.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/chorus-ai/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/chorus-ai/Frontend-only LLM ensemble interface with bring-your-own OpenRouter/API keys and client-side multi-model workflows.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/extract-lessons-book/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/extract-lessons-book/Ebook/document normalizer with optional OCR and LLM-generated advice + flowcharts. It also became a practical OCR evaluation project for me: for most books, plain PDF text extraction worked better than heavy OCR, so GLM OCR ended up as a fallback reserved for noisy pages, scans, or extraction failures.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/hashlines-mcp/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/hashlines-mcp/MCP server for hashline-anchored safe file read/edit workflows inspired by this archived write-up: https://web.archive.org/web/20260412162933/https://blog.can.ac/2026/02/12/the-harness-problem/Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/ita-kg/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/ita-kg/Knowledge-graph representation of the Indian Income Tax Act so agents can traverse section-to-section relationships explicitly.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/logsieve/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/logsieve/log deduplication sidecar using Drain3 algorithm, reduces volumes ~90%.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/murmur/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/murmur/Wispr Flow OSS - live streaming voice-to-text using whisper.cpp with Metal acceleration.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/netwatchrs/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/netwatchrs/Rust network diagnostics toolkit I built while debugging inconsistent Wi‑Fi and suspected service-quality issues on my own machine; the goal was to see what was actually happening under the hood instead of relying on vague network status indicators.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/podcast-watcher/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/podcast-watcher/Open-source attempt to replicate Gemini-style long-form YouTube understanding: extract MP3 audio with ffmpeg, build timestamped transcripts, detect only meaningful frame changes, and feed the useful video/audio context into an LLM. I found the visual path added little value, so it effectively converged into an audio-first podcast/video understanding pipeline.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/softcron/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/softcron/Kubernetes CronJob controller with Prometheus gating, pacing, and jitter.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/vigil/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/vigil/Watch your codebase breathe; TUI for real-time file change monitoring with inline diffsTue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/wiki-in-a-box/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/wiki-in-a-box/offline Wikipedia with hybrid no‑index RAG - powered by gpt-oss:20bTue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/feature-end-extension/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/feature-end-extension/I wanted one cleanup workflow after each feature and tried building a Pi extension for it. Packing all three steps into a single prompt failed quietly, so the extension now runs them as sequential gated steps.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/frontier-of-agentic-design/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/frontier-of-agentic-design/The written version of my talk on agentic design. The model is one layer; the interesting system is the harness, context, memory, control loop, and review process around it.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/nfs-to-git-agent-bus/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/nfs-to-git-agent-bus/A shared mount looked like the cleanest way to make two agent instances talk across machines. A 30 minute directory cache made it unreliable, so Git became the bus instead.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/rclone-s3-mount-macos/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/rclone-s3-mount-macos/I mounted an S3 bucket as a local folder in Finder with rclone and FUSE-T, auto-mounted on login. This is the full setup, the flags that make it behave, and where it falls over.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/vigil-watch-command-for-autonomous-llms/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/vigil-watch-command-for-autonomous-llms/Once I had LLMs editing code autonomously, I wanted to watch a directory breathe in real time. Existing tools gave me file events or diffs or a TUI, never all three, so I built vigil.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/territorial-agent-orchestration/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/territorial-agent-orchestration/A prompt rule for running parallel agents without conflicts: the coordinator owns the shared work, sub-agents only get isolated slices.Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/chessmaster-grandmaster-on-your-mac/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/chessmaster-grandmaster-on-your-mac/How a nostalgia trip through Windows XP on UTM failed, why QEMU could not provide the Direct3D support Chessmaster needed, and why Whisky ended up being the actual fix.Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/scx-slo/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/scx-slo/eBPF CPU scheduler enforcing latency SLOs via Earliest Deadline First.Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/contextgraph/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/contextgraph/Decision audit ledger for AI agents - captures "why" as queryable data.Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/aws-cloud-infra-gotchas/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/aws-cloud-infra-gotchas/You can run AWS Batch jobs as pods in your Kubernetes cluster. Pretty cool actually. As expected the AWS tutorial is reliable, you follow it step by step...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/cpu-usage-at-pod-level-in-k8s/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/cpu-usage-at-pod-level-in-k8s/How is pod level CPU usage metric calculated in k8s? How is pod level CPU usage metric calculated in k8s? The common PromQL query found on the internet may...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/dropbox-download-to-your-vm/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/dropbox-download-to-your-vm/Handy script to download all your business from dropbox This script had to undergo a lot of iterations, it failed a lot of times after download for hours on...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/external-mysql-migration-to-rds/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/external-mysql-migration-to-rds/Note: Some steps (public accessibility, IAMFullAccess, blob handling) are simplified/dated. Modern migrations avoid public endpoints, use fine grained IAM,...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/geofence-validation-on-google-maps-js-api/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/geofence-validation-on-google-maps-js-api/Note: This post reflects my 2019 exploration of geofence validation. Today, libraries like Turf.js or GEOS handle these cases more efficiently. Suppose you...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/incident-20th-feb-21st-feb-2017/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/incident-20th-feb-21st-feb-2017/I can write about the whole incident in detail because this was my own startup. I was the one man tech team here for about 2 years. What happened = 20th Feb...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/k8s-dns-fail/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/k8s-dns-fail/Let the service name be ‘banana’ Let the pods be of the service ‘pineapple’ There was a rise in 502s accompanied by cannot lookup banana and interestingly...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/kubernetes-terraform-kafka-and-others/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/kubernetes-terraform-kafka-and-others/Kubernetes: TIL in a k8s pod when you define env vars, if you define the same env var twice, the latter one takes precendence how resource quotas work in...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/meta-fun-random/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/meta-fun-random/Reminder: you can just do things a new word pedagogy. which means the method of teaching something. another unrelated word tacit knowledge. knowledge that...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/the-problem-of-forecasting-what-an-architecture-will-cost-as-it-scales/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/the-problem-of-forecasting-what-an-architecture-will-cost-as-it-scales/When does one scale? When one hits a bottleneck. That’s when.What is scaled in that scenario?Only the instance running the service which has become the...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/use-case-for-redis-zinterstore/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/use-case-for-redis-zinterstore/I was reading about how secondary indexes work in redis. Some people think that well hey, redis is a key value store isn’t it? So why would someone wanna...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/webrtc/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/webrtc/What a joy! It was a breath of fresh air when I came across the requirement of implementing live streaming. It was quite a learning curve to understand how...Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/when-opentelemetry-auto-instrumentation-meets-python-pex-a-debugging-journey/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/when-opentelemetry-auto-instrumentation-meets-python-pex-a-debugging-journey/OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation worked in a Python REPL but not in the actual FastAPI server. The reason was PEX running Python with -sE flags, which ignore PYTHONPATH. How I found it, and two ways to fix it.Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-a-junior-infra-techie/cpu-ram-disk/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-a-junior-infra-techie/cpu-ram-disk/Explaining CPU, RAM, and disk to juniors with a kitchen analogy: chef, counter, pantry. Covers iowait, steal time, throttling, overcommit, and IOPS vs bandwidth.Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-a-junior-infra-techie/vps-vs-vm-vs-containers/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-a-junior-infra-techie/vps-vs-vm-vs-containers/VPS, VM, and containers get used interchangeably. They solve the same problem - packing more workloads onto fewer machines - at different abstraction levels. The breakdown I give juniors.Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-can-just-do-things/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-can-just-do-things/There is nothing more that needs to be said.Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/health/base-health-stack-outdated/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/health/base-health-stack-outdated/This is what seems to be working for me and appears to be sustainable My goals are fat loss and muscle retention for now Legit been trying to lose weight...Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/long-ago-i-was-inspired/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/long-ago-i-was-inspired/Kinda depressing shit tbh I found these notes below from 2019, I was an inspired kid. 2025 today I am overwhelmed, I don't dream as freely as I used to. A...Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/xray/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/xray/structural code intelligence for AI assistants using ast-grep.Thu, 31 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/claude-memory-viz/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/claude-memory-viz/memory visualization for Anthropic's Claude memory MCP.Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/projects/kubectl-smart/https://srijanshukla.com/projects/kubectl-smart/turns noisy Kubernetes debugging into signal-first workflows.Thu, 17 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/speed-is-king/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/speed-is-king/We often underestimate the value of speed in everything we do. People are always amazed when someone does something faster. The combination of speed and...Mon, 03 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/just-stuff/john-von-goddamn-neumann/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/just-stuff/john-von-goddamn-neumann/VON GODDAMN NEUMANN https://medium.com/cantors paradise/the unparalleled genius of john von neumann 791bb9f42a2d https://medium.com/cantors paradiseSat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/2018-first-marathon-attempt/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/2018-first-marathon-attempt/My first marathon. Attempt. 28 07 2017. What a fail. Those words keep coming back to me. And it was, a big failure. I ran for the first 10kms, then the pain...Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/aging-hometown/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/aging-hometown/(crosspost from https://thinkdeli.com/post/aging hometown 1119) Parents getting old, they are not able to do with ease what they were able to before....Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/dad-was-happy/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/dad-was-happy/(crosspost from https://thinkdeli.com/post/dad was happy 700) Year 2008, I was in 7th standard. Infact I had just completed 7th standard. I came 4th overall...Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-a-junior-infra-techie/data-store/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-a-junior-infra-techie/data-store/How I explain data storage choices to juniors. The questions to ask about your data first, then the usual suspects: relational databases, object stores, warehouses, NoSQL, and file systems.Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-a-junior-infra-techie/encryption-compression-encoding-hashing-checksums-and-error-correction/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-a-junior-infra-techie/encryption-compression-encoding-hashing-checksums-and-error-correction/Encryption, compression, encoding, hashing, checksums and error correction, explained as tools in a toolbox for juniors. What each one is for and the mix-ups to avoid.Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-a-junior-infra-techie/networking/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/you-a-junior-infra-techie/networking/My mental model of networking from IP packets to HTTP, written down for juniors with a postal-system analogy. IP is the address, TCP/UDP the postage, DNS the phone book, TLS the sealed envelope, HTTP the letter.Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/just-stuff/bars-from-seedhe-maut/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/just-stuff/bars-from-seedhe-maut/end of 2023, start of 2024 heavily obsessed with this duo infact I only exclusively listen to their songs now they are a vibe, that I've not seen anywhere...Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/health/supplement-stack-outdated/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/health/supplement-stack-outdated/Mornings: [ ] Creatine [ ] L Theanine + Caffeine/Yohimbine tablets [ ] D3+K2+MCT Oil [ ] L Arginine [ ] Ashwagandha/Rhodiola/Triple Ginseng Root [ ]...Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/ideas-i-cannot-classify/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/musings-alone/ideas-i-cannot-classify/Badi badi baatein, vada paav khaatein We look for so many optimizations in our day to day lives. There are people who are hellbent on collecting advance...Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/mac-utilities/https://srijanshukla.com/writing/tech/mac-utilities/April 1, 2019 I’ll keep updating this post as I come across new stuff. The external hard drive is detected.. but won’t mount? grep for the fsck process,...Sat, 09 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT