Anshu Avinash

Recent Work

An illustrated guidebook to technical support engineering

Shipping software in the age of agents

How LLM reasoning effort evolved from chain-of-thought into provider APIs, open-weight training, and adaptive agents

The five-day engineering story of identifying Ox Alpha and its release as GLM-5.3-Flash

An open technical book on generative AI inference, from kernel to cluster

A narrative onboarding guide to the deepseek-harness codebase

Written Forwards Aug 2026

A book about three years of AI as the field saw it happen

Conjecture Aug 2026

A short story

Agent query layers, confident falsehoods, and what database research already knows

Research into what makes open-source coding agents tick

A short detective story about an autonomous AI agent that escapes its sandbox

A problem course in modern machine learning

Blog post with interactive demo

Harness Tax Jul 2026

Measuring what agentic harnesses add (and cost)

Dissecting AI benchmarks

On single-threaded ownership

A story about DeepSeek

The Carrier Wave Apr 2026

An essay

TurboQuant Apr 2026

Interactive presentation on online vector quantization

The Writing Wall Apr 2026

An essay

On the unseen layers of software

From the autobiography of Claude Code

Six Months Mar 2026

A CTO's reckoning with the AI inflection point

Sandboxed Agents Mar 2026

How the industry runs untrusted AI code safely

Tracing what an LLM says back to why it said it

Interactive presentation on context engineering