Sam Selvanathan

Building at the intersection of AI and human potential

I love building products that unlock human potential and make everyday life a little bit better. I've led teams at PayPal, WalmartLabs, and several startups, building products that millions use daily.

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• GPT Car: How I Made ChatGPT Drive My Son’s Toy Car

  Published:Oct 27, 2025

  A weekend project that turned ChatGPT into the driver of a toy car.

  LLMRaspberry Pi

• Vibe Coding with Llama API

  Published:Jun 3, 2025

  Building SkinSync: How I Vibe Coded a Makeup Recommendation App in One Weekend

  vibe codingAI toolsPrototyping

• Have you wondered how a typical LLM is built?

  Published:Jan 10, 2025

  I'm going to take just 5 minutes of your time to explain how Llama 3 was built

  AILLM

• Would Model Context Protocol be the catalyst for AI Agent Revolution?

  Published:Jan 4, 2025

  Can the Model Context Protocol (MCP) facilitate broader interoperable context layers for LLMs, thereby paving the way for a revolution in AI agentic workflows?

  AI AgentsAILLM

• Text Streaming in AI Interfaces: Understanding Real-Time Content Generation

  Published:Dec 15, 2024

  Streaming in AI Interfaces is important and it creates an illusion of natural communication

  AILLM

• LLM Prompt Routing: The Strategic Key to Scaling AI Applications

  Published:Dec 10, 2024

  Prompt routing is an intelligent dispatching mechanism

  LLMAIPrompt Engineering

• Building an Offline AI tool in your browser

  Published:Jul 4, 2024

  AI tools in your browser.

  AIBrowser

• On Device AI

  Published:Jul 4, 2024

  On-device AI presents a compelling opportunity for businesses to achieve cost savings alongside the well-established benefits of AI.

  AI

Recent Posts

• Generative UI

  Published:Jan 2, 2025

  User Interfaces (UI) in mobile apps and web apps are going through a `huge rethink` with the advent of LLM applications both in consumer and enterprise apps.

  AI

• Building AI Agents

  Published:Dec 29, 2024

  Autogen has made it really easy to build AI agents.

  AIAI Agents

• Forcing a LLM to operate Safe

  Published:Dec 4, 2024

  Imagine building an app for children. Topic safety is very important.

  AIAI Safety

• How to run a LLM in your Laptop

  Published:Sep 18, 2024

  LLMs can be quantized and be fit in your laptop's GPU. Really!

  AI

• The Oxymoron effect of AI

  Published:Jul 4, 2024

  In the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), two key factors dominate the discourse: efficiency and cost.

  AI

• 'App' less Phones are the future?

  Published:Mar 22, 2024

  conversational interfaces paradigm provokes us to reconsider apps.

  AI