Blogs + Essays
May 2026
How Search Quality Shapes RL Outcomes
Agents trained with Exa as the search backend during RL reach higher performance with less training compute than those using Google
March 2026
WebCode: Search Evals for Coding Agents
Open sourcing WebCode, internal evaluations to improve content extraction and retrieval quality for coding agents
January 2026
exa-d: Data Framework to Process the Web
Exa's internally-built framework for handling web data processing at scale
July 2025
Changes in Government Policies Create Markets for Startups in Highly Regulated Industries
policy shifts in regulated sectors like healthcare create time-bound windows where startups can entirely capture this new market
April 2023
Scientific Heretics: In History and Modernity
old rabbit hole on how the modern world protects scientific heresy
December 2022
Applying AI to the Industry of Biology: Eligibility Criteria and Clinical Trial Design
I spent years across Amgen and at a clinical trial startup thinking through how AI could improve core bottlenecks across issues like patient recruitment. I share some of my work on this here, always happy to chat about it
Notes
May 2026
On the Packaging of Discovery
Notes from Prussian Blue, the first chapter of When We Cease to Understand the World. Optimization rarely appears to lead to discovery
May 2026
People that worked on the same idea for decades
I collect examples of people that worked on iterations of the same idea over the course of decades, before landing on their magnum opus
May 2026
What I learned from running
refusing to take the Faustian bargain: how lazy do you need to be to keep going?