sanchay thalnerkar

blogs

notes from building things.

i write about what the builds taught me, after they ship. no tutorials for things i have not run in production.

oct 2026

my agents write the code. here is what i still do myself

a fleet of coding agents does most of the typing now. the deciding, the checking and the saying no are still mine.

6 min

sep 2026

the boring work is where the money is

clinic bookings and bank statements taught me more about ai than any demo. nobody brags about them, everybody pays for them.

5 min

jan 2025 · on x

the o1 chess thread, and what it showed

1.8m people read it. what a reasoning model does when you hand it a board and get out of the way.

4 min

earlier

  1. making ai smarter and smallergithub, aug 2024
  2. unleashing the power of gpt-4olablab.ai, jun 2024
  3. mastering ai content creation with llama 3 and groqlablab.ai, jun 2024