Founder and CEO of Orizu, building a platform for continually learning AI applications.https://raveesh.xyz/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/what-should-i-optimize/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/what-should-i-optimize/This isn’t rocket science. It’s basic data science.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/a-pragmatic-recipe-for-continual/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/a-pragmatic-recipe-for-continual/With the ingredients we currently haveThu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/vibe-checking-vibe-coding-platforms/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/vibe-checking-vibe-coding-platforms/With Gemini 3 out, I decided to put a few vibe-coding services through the paces.Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/claude-code-vs-codex-cli/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/claude-code-vs-codex-cli/Comparing their approaches and sharing my preferences. With a special appearance by two others.Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/required-reading-interfaces-that/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/required-reading-interfaces-that/One of my favorite recent articles on design which provides a really useful framework (shared below) to think about Human X AI collaboration.Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/turns-out-it-was-a-good-thing-that/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/turns-out-it-was-a-good-thing-that/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.Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/netflixs-new-ai-search/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/netflixs-new-ai-search/What I'd been working on for ~2 years is finally outWed, 14 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/serendipity/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/serendipity/In late 2021, I realized I needed a new challenge.Sat, 28 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/required-reading-casey-handmers-thoughts/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/required-reading-casey-handmers-thoughts/Several years ago, I proposed a “book rating” system that went like this:Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/no-dead-ends/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/no-dead-ends/“No dead ends” is a commonly stated product/design “principle” for Search and Recommendation products.Wed, 27 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/writing-with-ai/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/writing-with-ai/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.Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/the-nyt-test/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/the-nyt-test/The past week hasn’t been a very good one for Google. The cultural issues, though, go well beyond Gemini.Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/copilots/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/copilots/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.Sat, 29 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/building-again/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/building-again/Why I came back to writing on my own site—and how building with AI made shipping on the web feel fun again.Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/intimate-computing/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/intimate-computing/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.Tue, 28 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/ask-subsidizing-writes-to-a-blockchain/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/ask-subsidizing-writes-to-a-blockchain/Is anyone working on this?Fri, 22 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/should-we-use-ai/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/should-we-use-ai/Just because its easier than ever to build AI models does not mean you should.Thu, 17 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/chris-dixon-web3/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/chris-dixon-web3/A post by Raveesh Bhalla: Chris Dixon on Web3.0.Mon, 27 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/github-dot-dev/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/github-dot-dev/A post by Raveesh Bhalla: Github.dev.Wed, 11 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/zero-sum/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/zero-sum/A post by Raveesh Bhalla: Zero sum.Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/pillars-of-ai/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/pillars-of-ai/A post by Raveesh Bhalla: The pillars of AI product development.Fri, 18 Sep 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/reading/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/reading/Highly recommend Shane Parish's blog on reading. Some notes/takeways below after diving into the rabbit hole.Fri, 24 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/travelling-to-rome/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/travelling-to-rome/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!Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://raveesh.xyz/posts/why-i-write-decision-making-frameworks/https://raveesh.xyz/posts/why-i-write-decision-making-frameworks/Why writing frameworks helps me sharpen decisions, share context, invite disagreement, and build reusable ways of thinking.Sun, 15 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT