Nitya's Notes

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.

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