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Vamshi Jandhyala

Writing

Essays on AI, APIs, data, strategy, and startups.

AI and agents

  • Beautiful problems deserve beautiful typesetting

    On the hunt for beautiful olympiad problems, the indignity of badly typeset mathematics on the web, and a small side project to surface AI training datasets back to the human readers the problems were originally written for.

  • The LLM as an API Designer and Critic

    When AI builds the API, then evaluates its own work, a dialogue exploring how LLMs design, critique, and consume geospatial APIs.

  • Ironies of AI Automation

    A practitioner's guide to Bainbridge's framework, understanding why more AI automation often means we need more human expertise, not less.

  • When the customer is an LLM

    An essay from 2023 arguing that LLMs would become primary consumers of APIs, that API documentation would become in-demand training data, and that API product managers would soon be designing for a non-human customer. Republished with a 2026 note.

API design

Data platforms

  • The catalog becomes the query interface

    An essay from 2023 arguing that natural-language queries would replace SQL as the primary interface to enterprise data, with the data catalog as the substrate that makes those queries trustworthy. Republished with a 2026 note.

Strategy