Shrivu’s Substack

Betting Against the Models

Speculations on the future of cybersecurity products for AI agents.

Aug 24 • 

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AI Can't Read Your Docs

Designing software that today's AI coding agents can actually use.

Aug 17 • 

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July 2025

Assistants Aren't the Future of AI

Speculations on what comes after (or instead) of AI assistants.

Jul 19 • 

Shrivu Shankar

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Building Multi-Agent Systems (Part 2)

Updated methods for scaling LLM-based agents to handle complex problems reliably.

Jul 5 • 

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June 2025

How to Train Your GPT Wrapper

Improving your agents automatically with experience.

Jun 28 • 

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How I use AI (2025)

Some thoughts on using AI for everyday things.

Jun 8 • 

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May 2025

How to Stop Your Human From Hallucinating

When humans sometimes act like confused language models.

May 4 • 

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April 2025

Everything Wrong with MCP

Explaining the Model Context Protocol and everything that might go wrong.

Apr 13 • 

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March 2025

How Cursor (AI IDE) Works

Turning LLMs into coding experts and how to take advantage of them.

Mar 16 • 

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Working with Systems Smarter Than You

Some opinions on what the future might look like for jobs, AI, and software engineering.

Mar 1 • 

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February 2025

How to Backdoor Large Language Models

Making "BadSeek", a sneaky open-source coding model.

Feb 8 • 

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January 2025

Socioeconomic Modeling with Reasoning Models

Using a complex political simulation game to test state-of-the-art reasoning models.

Jan 27 • 

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