Blogs

Long-form notes from Varun Ahlawat.

How to build agents

A complete breakdown of production-ready agent architecture. No frameworks, just ~500 lines of TypeScript that actually work.

2/2/20267 min read

How do you compare two different architectures? (not models)

Technical Notes

AGI

Architecture

Current DL architectural research relies on language retrieval scores. Here's why vision-action RL benchmarks like COOM are a better test of generalized intelligence.

2/2/20265 min read

How do you compare two different architectures? (not models)

The Scientific Feverdream of building AGI.

Technical Notes

Research

Philosophy

Two unsolved problems: AGI-ready architecture, and AGI-ready training algorithms. My take on building rigorous methods for architectural research.

2/1/20261 min read

Closing the Loop of Automation in Manufacturing Enterprises

Dashboards are not decisions. Here’s how factories move from visibility to autonomy.

10/28/20252 min read

Closing the Loop of Automation in Manufacturing Enterprises

Most Powerful Understanding of Intelligent Systems

Technical Notes

Information Theory

Information Theory perspective on what happens in an LLM will blow your fucking mind

2/10/20267 min read

Most Powerful Understanding of Intelligent Systems

My previous startup

Z-EO: an autonomous operations layer I built that senses live signals across enterprise stacks, reasons about constraints, and acts. My IP.

11/10/20251 min read

Leadership,

I had to elect the next President for an organization. I didn't know who/how to choose. In the hindsight, I learned invaluable lessons...

5/15/20261 min read

2026: Radically New Forms of Memory in AI

Technical Notes

Research

Philosophy

Exploring Hebbian memory, DeepSeek's n-gram lookup, and other architectural approaches to statefulness beyond RAG.

2/2/20262 min read

speakops telecom bootcamp

The founder-grade mental model for what a phone number actually is, who controls it, and why telecom identity is wider than the digits a customer sees.

Telecom Crashcourse 01: Numbering and IdentityTelecom Crashcourse 02: Portability and Routing ControlTelecom Crashcourse 03: Voice Signaling and Call FlowTelecom Crashcourse 04: Programmable Voice and Routing Logic+6 more posts

Reasoning & Thinking Updates

Technical Notes

Research

Literature Review

TD-MPC 2, Dreamer, Continuous Thought Machines, latent space planning - a literature review on reasoning and planning approaches in AI.

2/10/20261 min read