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Attaching the email I just sent - it's an update on what I've been up to this year.

Nil here. My last update was in December, so we have a few new posts.

I've kept busy, launching dsatoolkit.com, wallgame.io, and isomux.com. Most posts are building-in-public style, explaining these projects. Some are quite long because I want them to serve as playbooks for people building similar stuff.

The latest one, "The RL Environment Gold Rush", may be my favorite. It's an inside look at the AI data industry.

You'll notice the blog is shifting along with my interests, from DS&A to AI. The Wall Game posts cover model training and inference, whereas the Isomux one is about agentic tooling.

Personal update: I'm job searching! And trying to expand beyond interview prep. I'd like to find something in the agentic tooling/product space, or maybe bringing agents to infra.

Thanks for reading!

The RL Environment Gold Rush
May 7, 2026
How frontier models are trained, what RL environments are, and what the job actually looks like at the companies creating them.

Isomux Design and Architecture
April 3, 2026
Design, architecture, and takeaways from building a multi-provider agent office that supports multi-user, multi-device, and multi-agent conversations.

Deep Dive: Inference Pipeline for Self-Play
March 24, 2026
A detailed walkthrough of the inference pipeline powering self-play for the AlphaZero-style AI behind the Wall Game.

Training an AlphaZero-Style AI for a New Board Game
February 16, 2026
A playbook for building AlphaZero-style AIs, from architecture to training to deployment.

Toolkit-X: A better way to do DS&A problem lists
December 11, 2025
Introducing Toolkit-X: a free DS&A toolkit with curated BCtCI problems that can be used like a traditional problem list.

Herding 1440 Programs: Automating Large-Scale Codebase Changes for BCtCI
December 10, 2025
How do you coordinate 'trivial' changes across 1440 programs in 5 languages? Lessons from running the BCtCI codebase.

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