# Harshal Gajjar

> Personal site and blog of Harshal Gajjar — AI Forward-Deployed Engineer at C3 AI leading Agentic AI harness work, founder of a stealth Agentic-AI startup, Shram.io cofounder. Georgia Tech M.S. CS (ML), IIT Dharwad B.Tech CS, Wolfram Student Ambassador. Cyclist, caver, Mathematica enthusiast.

## Primary pages

- [Home](https://harshalgajjar.com/): interactive knowledge-graph portfolio
- [Blog](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog): notes and longer essays on Agentic AI, language, cycling, caving, Mathematica
- [Resume (PDF)](https://harshalgajjar.com/resume.pdf)

## Blog posts

- [The Last Thing for Humanity to Do](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/deciding-is-the-diamond) — Jul 7, 2026: AI made doing free, then deciding. The scarcity keeps climbing — and it's not clear the last rung stays ours.
- [The blank box problem](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/the-blank-box-problem) — Jul 4, 2026: The chat-vs-UI divide isn't about interfaces. It's about who holds the model of the task.
- [The phone is the terminal now](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/phone-is-the-terminal) — Jun 25, 2026: When agents do the work, the laptop stops being the bottleneck.
- [reminal — SSH without the gymnastics](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/reminal) — Jun 19, 2026: A zero-config way to reach your own machine. One command, scan a QR code, you're in.
- [Why do we need evals when AI reviews exist?](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/eval-vs-review) — Jun 16, 2026: The distinction isn't human vs. machine. It's what gets inspected.
- [What LLMs reveal about language](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/language-and-llms) — Jun 14, 2026: We built them on the info-transfer view of language. The places they feel hollow tell us what that view missed.
- [Tesla insurance as a game-theory patch](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/tesla-insurance-bad-actors) — Jun 12, 2026: When you can't make the car aggressive, change the other driver's payoff matrix.
- [Harnesses, not agents](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/agent-harness-2026) — Jun 8, 2026: What "agentic AI" actually ships in the wild.
- [back from a TAG weekend](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/tag-weekend) — Jun 2, 2026: back from a TAG weekend. neversink in the rain — 162 ft of free hang, water sheeting down the cliff face the whole descent. nothing else in the week feels heav…
- [Reading my own notes from Vipassana](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/vipassana-reread) — May 19, 2026: I sat a 10-day silent retreat in 2025. I came home and wrote nothing for a week, and then I wrote too much, and then I forgot most of it.
- [8+ years into Mathematica and I still find a built-in I didn't know…](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/mathematica-anniversary) — May 10, 2026: 8+ years into Mathematica and I still find a built-in I didn't know about every week. the language is fractal — there's always one more layer of "wait, that's…
- [The pivot is the product decision](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/pivot-lesson) — Apr 22, 2026: Notes from leading the Shram pivot, written down so I don't forget.
- [old la honda → west alpine → pescadero loop](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/coastal-ride) — Apr 9, 2026: old la honda → west alpine → pescadero loop. 78 mi, 6500 ft. the descent off haskins is the closest a road gets to feeling like a pipe.
- [What "forward-deployed" actually means](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/fde-mindset) — Mar 28, 2026: A forward-deployed engineer is not a consultant. The job isn't to draw an architecture diagram and leave. The job is to embed in a customer's codebase, ship th…
- [reading: "The Beginning of Infinity" (deutsch, again), "Designing…](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/reading-list) — Mar 12, 2026: reading: "The Beginning of Infinity" (deutsch, again), "Designing Data-Intensive Applications" (kleppmann, for the third time), and the SWE-bench papers. one b…
- [Sixteen years of writing code](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/origin-2010) — Feb 14, 2026: Today I'm sixteen years into writing code. The first program ran in Visual Studio in 2010. I was thirteen. It printed a number and felt like a magic trick.
- [first trip into Guardian with the SFBC grotto](https://harshalgajjar.com/blog/guardian-cave) — Jan 30, 2026: first trip into Guardian with the SFBC grotto. tight breakdown, then it opens into a room you don't expect from the entrance. cave geometry is the best argumen…

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