FILE / 001 — INDEX

Looking for my
inspirations.

payas kulhari grade-11 student. building, reading, and figuring out what artificial intelligence becomes when it stops being a thing on a screen and starts being a thing in a room.

age16

grade11/ secondary

focusAI/ tools · agents

statusbuilding/ always

view work → say hello ↗

01// PROFILE

A 16-year-old who refuses to wait until university to start.

Payas Kulhari

SUBJECT.001PAYAS.K // 16

I'm a grade 11 student who treats AI the way other people treat sport: obsessively, daily, with no particular permission. I read papers I half-understand, build things I shouldn't be able to, and then build them again better.

I care about design almost as much as I care about intelligence. A bad interface to a good idea is still a bad idea. So I draw, sketch, prototype, ship — and treat every project as a chance to make something that looks like it was made on purpose.

Right now I'm looking for my inspirations. The people, the books, the systems, the moments that decide what I become next.

born2009

based inon earth

school yeargrade 11

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favourite stackpython / ts

currentlyshipping

02// FEATURED

Selected work — three things I'm proud of.

[Project One] // short tag describing what it is

pythonpytorchcuda

2026 — current

[Project Two] // short tag describing what it is

typescriptnext.jsllm

[Project Three] // short tag describing what it is

03// ALL PROJECTS

Everything else in the lab.

[Project Four]

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[Project Five]

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[Project Six]

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[Project Seven]

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[Project Eight]

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[Project Nine]

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04// LOG

A short history of doing things on purpose.

2026 / nowspring

[Current focus]

Placeholder for what you're working on right now — research, internship, club, or competition.

placeholder orgrole · in-person

2025fall

[Notable accomplishment]

Placeholder — replace with hackathon win, paper, award, or project launch.

wherecontext

2025summer

[Internship / Research]

Placeholder — describe a research stint, internship, or formative summer project.

whererole

2024winter

[Talk / Workshop / Club]

Placeholder — talk you gave, workshop you led, club you founded.

whererole

2023—

[The beginning]

First time you wrote code that did something nobody asked you to make. Placeholder.

self-taughtat home

05// WRITING

Notes from the edges of intelligence.

→ 001essay Why every student needs a lab, not just a laptop 8 min— may 2026 → 002note Notes after reading one AI paper twice 3 min— apr 2026 → 003log Building a small agent that keeps me honest 5 min— mar 2026 → 004essay The interface is part of the idea 11 min— feb 2026 → allindex View the writing index → — —— full archive

06// NOW

What I'm doing this week.

Inspired by Derek Sivers' /now pages — a snapshot of where my attention actually is.

BUILDINGLIVE

[A side-project you can't stop thinking about]

Placeholder for what you're currently shipping. One or two sentences. Be specific.

stage · prototypesince · apr

READING04 / week

[Book title]

Placeholder for the book that's actually changing how you think this month.

chapter · 04pages · 142

LEARNING02 / week

[Topic / course]

Placeholder for what you're actively studying — course, paper series, lecture set.

weeks · 06hours · 22

07// STACK

Tools and what I do with them.

Languages

PythonTypeScriptSwiftRustC++SQLBash

AI / ML

PyTorchTransformersLangChainJAXOpenAI APIAnthropic APIllama.cppvLLM

Frontend

ReactNext.jsThree.jsD3TailwindFramer Motion

Design

FigmaAfter EffectsBlenderProcreate

Infra

DockerKubernetesModalVercelSupabasePostgres

Philosophy

ship dailyread paperswrite oftendesign mattersbe a beginner

08// STATS

A few honest numbers.

github · commits / yr1,284vs last yr+42%

public repos38active12

books / yr27technical11

hackathons9placed top 34

1,284 contributions in the last yearplaceholder data

52 weeks · sun → sat less more

Say hi — I'll
say hi @ back.

// channels

email→ github→ x / twitter→ linkedin→ read.cv→

// open to

Research opportunities, internships, mentors, weird collaborations, anyone working on AI-as-infrastructure, or anyone who has a book recommendation they think will rewire me.

I respond within 24 hours, usually faster, almost always with too much enthusiasm.

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