<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en_US"><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://thevyasamit.github.io/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://thevyasamit.github.io/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" hreflang="en_US" /><updated>2026-09-01T05:12:04+00:00</updated><id>https://thevyasamit.github.io/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Amit Vyas</title><subtitle>Amit Vyas is a software engineer and researcher at the ICICLE AI Institute, The Ohio State University, working on AI infrastructure, APIs and applied machine learning. Writing on AI, engineering and health.</subtitle><author><name>Amit Vyas</name></author><entry><title type="html">Why this site exists</title><link href="https://thevyasamit.github.io/writing/why-this-site-exists/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Why this site exists" /><published>2026-08-24T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-08-24T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://thevyasamit.github.io/writing/why-this-site-exists</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://thevyasamit.github.io/writing/why-this-site-exists/"><![CDATA[<p>We are in a world where almost everything is virtual. In the earlier days of
civilisation people had a home address; I think now is the time to also have an
address on the web — somewhere that is yours, that outlives whichever platform
is fashionable this year.</p>

<p>So this is mine. It has been sitting here for a while as a static résumé. I’m
turning it into something I actually write on.</p>

<h2 id="what-i-expect-to-write-about">What I expect to write about</h2>

<p>Roughly three things, which is also roughly what I spend my days on:</p>

<ul>
  <li><strong>AI, minus the hype.</strong> I work at an AI institute, which mostly means I see
how much unglamorous infrastructure sits underneath every impressive demo.
I’d like to write about that gap.</li>
  <li><strong>Engineering.</strong> APIs, Kubernetes, the parts of Python that surprise me, and
documentation as a first-class artifact rather than an afterthought.</li>
  <li><strong>Health and everything else.</strong> Occasionally. It’s my site.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="how-this-works">How this works</h2>

<p>Posts are plain Markdown files in <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">_posts/</code>. The site is Jekyll on GitHub
Pages, so publishing is a <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">git push</code> — no CMS, no database, nothing to keep
patched. Everything is filterable by tag and searchable from the
<a href="/writing/">writing index</a>.</p>

<p>No newsletter, no popups, no tracking. Just the words.</p>]]></content><author><name>Amit Vyas</name></author><category term="tech" /><category term="software" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A short note on what I plan to write here, and why a personal site still beats posting into someone else's feed.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://thevyasamit.github.io/images/og-card.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://thevyasamit.github.io/images/og-card.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry></feed>