# Raveesh Bhalla > Founder and CEO of Orizu, building a platform for continually learning AI applications. I’m Raveesh Bhalla, Founder and CEO of Orizu, a platform for continually learning AI applications. Prior to Orizu, I worked on the algorithms that power Netflix’s homepage recommendations and built its AI search experience. I also built the AI systems that power LinkedIn’s jobs marketplace. This is where I write down ideas I want to understand better and return to later. The archive spans product development, design, technology, artificial intelligence, decision-making, travel, and the occasional experiment. ## About this site This is the canonical personal website and writing archive for Raveesh Bhalla. 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It’s basic data science. Published 2026-04-06. - [A pragmatic recipe for continual learning](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/a-pragmatic-recipe-for-continual.md): With the ingredients we currently have Published 2026-01-22. - [Vibe-checking vibe-coding platforms w/Gemini 3](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/vibe-checking-vibe-coding-platforms.md): With Gemini 3 out, I decided to put a few vibe-coding services through the paces. Published 2025-11-18. - [Claude Code vs Codex CLI](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/claude-code-vs-codex-cli.md): Comparing their approaches and sharing my preferences. With a special appearance by two others. Published 2025-09-22. - [[Required Reading] Interfaces that augment or replace?](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/required-reading-interfaces-that.md): One of my favorite recent articles on design which provides a really useful framework (shared below) to think about Human X AI collaboration. Published 2025-08-11. - [Turns out it was a good thing that the best minds of our time worked on Ads](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/turns-out-it-was-a-good-thing-that.md): Getting people to click on ads may not have sounded like a great mission, but it aligned the incentives for the foundational research that gave us AI. Published 2025-07-01. - [Netflix's new AI Search](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/netflixs-new-ai-search.md): What I'd been working on for ~2 years is finally out Published 2025-05-14. - [Serendipity](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/serendipity.md): In late 2021, I realized I needed a new challenge. Published 2024-12-28. - [[Required Reading] Casey Handmer’s thoughts on DOGE](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/required-reading-casey-handmers-thoughts.md): Several years ago, I proposed a “book rating” system that went like this: Published 2024-12-03. - [No dead ends](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/no-dead-ends.md): “No dead ends” is a commonly stated product/design “principle” for Search and Recommendation products. Published 2024-11-27. - [Writing with AI](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/writing-with-ai.md): I’ve finally crossed a threshold where some parts of what I write - particularly memos at work - have some degree of content generated with AI. Published 2024-08-23. - [The NYT Test](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/the-nyt-test.md): The past week hasn’t been a very good one for Google. The cultural issues, though, go well beyond Gemini. Published 2024-02-28. - [Copilots](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/copilots.md): It's counter-intuitive, but for now it looks like _less_ automation is better than more automation. And we need dedicated copilots for each problem, with each copilot needing its own interaction paradigm that suits each individual's workflows. Published 2023-04-29. - [Building again](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/building-again.md): Why I came back to writing on my own site—and how building with AI made shipping on the web feel fun again. Published 2023-04-23. - [Intimate computing](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/intimate-computing.md): I wrote the following post on my then Medium blog. Listening to Ben Thompson’s post on his conversation with Sydney (a persona of Bing’s GPT-based chatbot that some folks have managed to unlock) made me want to revisit it, and I thought it was worth sharing 9 years on. Published 2023-02-28. - [[Ask] Subsidizing writes to a blockchain](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/ask-subsidizing-writes-to-a-blockchain.md): Is anyone working on this? Published 2022-04-22. - [🤔Should we use AI?](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/should-we-use-ai.md): Just because its easier than ever to build AI models does not mean you should. Published 2022-03-17. - [Chris Dixon on Web3.0](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/chris-dixon-web3.md): A post by Raveesh Bhalla: Chris Dixon on Web3.0. Published 2021-09-27. - [Github.dev](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/github-dot-dev.md): A post by Raveesh Bhalla: Github.dev. Published 2021-08-11. - [Zero sum](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/zero-sum.md): A post by Raveesh Bhalla: Zero sum. Published 2020-09-20. - [The pillars of AI product development](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/pillars-of-ai.md): A post by Raveesh Bhalla: The pillars of AI product development. Published 2020-09-18. - [Shane Parish on reading better](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/reading.md): Highly recommend Shane Parish's blog on reading. Some notes/takeways below after diving into the rabbit hole. Published 2020-07-24. - [Travelling to Rome](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/travelling-to-rome.md): Two of my colleagues asked me for my recommendations about their travel to Rome, so I thought id write down some highlights from earlier in the year! Published 2019-12-22. - [Why I write decision-making frameworks](https://raveesh.xyz/posts/why-i-write-decision-making-frameworks.md): Why writing frameworks helps me sharpen decisions, share context, invite disagreement, and build reusable ways of thinking. Published 2019-12-15. ## Canonical profiles - [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/in/raveeshbhalla) - [GitHub](https://github.com/raveeshbhalla) - [X](https://x.com/raveeshbhalla) - [Substack](https://raveesh.substack.com)