Gainesville, FloridaAI Agents Architect, UF IFASCounts synced 2026-08-27
Yash Raj Pandey
I work on the layer where AI systems quietly go wrong, and I prove it.
I build LLM infrastructure, agent platforms, and evaluation systems. I also reproduce new model research, publish what broke, and send the fixes upstream.
Selected Work11 projects
- Blue OmicsGenomics research platform for the UF blueberry breeding programJoined at 81 source files687, and the lead seat
- willitcallThe caniuse of local-model tool callingNobody had published the matrix32 rows, 3 servers
- PodiumVerified delegation for coding agents, where a shell command decides whether the work landedThe bot reports donethe runner decides
Writing6 posts
- The Work You Don't Do: Losing Two Optimization Competitions the Same WayI named the question I failed to ask, then entered another competition and failed to ask it again. What actually wins these races, and why I keep missing it.2 competitions entered2 lost the same way
- Eight Submissions, Zero Promotions: A Week Inside mlx.fast on the Wrong HardwareCompeting in an open ML-optimization competition on hardware that could not run the ranked benchmark, and why measurement bandwidth decided everything.8 submitted0 promoted
- Baton: I Built a Tool for Delegating Code to an AI, Then Used It to Build ItselfA standalone kit that installs a reliable orchestrator-delegates-to-executor workflow into Claude Code - and the dogfooding loop that wrote it8 tasks delegated2 failed, both my spec's fault