September 2025 – Shekhar Gulati
4 posts published by shekhargulati during September 2025| Shekhar Gulati
4 posts published by shekhargulati during September 2025| Shekhar Gulati
I was working on a problem where I needed to extract information from hotel tariff sheet PDF documents. These documents provide details on seasonal room rates, occupancy terms, and related suppleme…| Shekhar Gulati
Today, I was browsing Hacker News when I stumbled upon an interesting project: coderunner-ui. The premise was compelling – a local-first AI workspace that lets you chat with LLMs and execute …| Shekhar Gulati
I have spent last few months working on a regulatory intelligence software. One of the important feature is extracting obligations from dense PDF documents. In this post I am sharing some of the le…| Shekhar Gulati
One term that I have been hearing a lot lately is reward hacking. I have heard this term multiple times from folks at OpenAI and Anthropic, and it represents a fundamental challenge in AI alignment…| Shekhar Gulati
I was listening to a talk by Anthropic folks on Claude Code In the talk speaker was asked why they built Claude code as CLI tool instead of IDE. They gave two reasons: Claude Code is built by Anthr…| Shekhar Gulati
Mistral released a new model yesterday. It is designed to excel at Agentic coding tasks meaning it can use tools. It is Apache 2.0 license. It is finetuned from Mistral-Small-3.1, therefore it has …| Shekhar Gulati
Creating an AI assistant that generate helpful answers from a knowledge base is a complex problem. A significant hurdle is the frequent mismatch between how users ask questions and how information …| Shekhar Gulati
Last night, I found myself overwhelmed by open tabs in Chrome. I wondered how many I had open, but couldn’t find a built-in tab counter. While third-party extensions likely existed, I am not …| Shekhar Gulati
In my previous post we built Prompt Injection Detector by training a LogisticRegression classifier on embeddings of SPML Chatbot Prompt Injection Dataset. Today, we will look at how we can fine-tun…| Shekhar Gulati
In the last couple of days, I’ve spent some hours playing with Patchwork. Patchwork is an open-source framework that leverages AI to accelerate asynchronous development tasks like code review…| Shekhar Gulati
Today I was watching a talk by Maggie Appleton from local-first conference. She points out in her insightful talk on homecooked software and barefoot developers, there exists a significant gap in a…| Shekhar Gulati
I was reading Concise Thoughts: Impact of Output Length on LLM Reasoning and Cost paper today and thought of applying it to a problem I solved a couple of months back. This paper introduced the Con…| Shekhar Gulati
In the ever-evolving landscape of data management, DuckDB has carved out a niche for itself as a powerful analytical database designed for efficient in-process data analysis. It is particularly wel…| Shekhar Gulati
Today I was reading Chapter 9 “Multimodal Large Language Models” of Hands-On Large Language Models book and thought of applying it to a problem I face occassionally. The chapter covers …| Shekhar Gulati
I enjoy reading books on Oreilly learning platform . For the past month, a new feature on the Oreilly platform called “Answers” has been staring me down, and I haven’t been tempte…| Shekhar Gulati
In this post, we will discuss how to build a Prompt Injection detector using a simple classification task with Scikit-learn’s Logistic Regression. Logistic Regression is a statistical method …| Shekhar Gulati
I spent some time going over the Postgres schema of Gitlab. GitLab is an alternative to Github. You can self host GitLab since it is an open source DevOps platform. My motivation to understand the …| Shekhar Gulati
