Sean Koval ยท Machine Learning EngineerI build ML systems that ship: from research prototypes to reliable, product-grade pipelines.https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/en-usPrivate Equity's AI Problem Is Not a Model Problemhttps://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/private-equity-ai-integration/https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/private-equity-ai-integration/Why LLM rollouts at investment firms stall out at search, what the four workflows actually demand, and the products that should exist but don't.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTprivate-equityllmopsagentsretrievalenterprise-aiGitHub Pulse: Week of March 1, 2026https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/github-pulse-2026-03-01/https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/github-pulse-2026-03-01/Agents learned to work in teams, SpacetimeDB collapsed the stack, and WiFi replaced cameras for human sensing.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTgithubtrendingaideveloper-toolsopen-sourceagentsML Research Pulse: Week of March 1, 2026https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/research-roundup-2026-03-01/https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/research-roundup-2026-03-01/Diffusion language models get their PyTorch moment, CUDA kernel generation outpaces compilers, and VLM efficiency breaks through with 89% token reduction.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTml-researchaipapersML Research Pulse: Week of February 1, 2026https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/research-roundup-2026-02-01/https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/research-roundup-2026-02-01/Training-free improvements, process-level agent rewards, and efficient reasoning dominate this week's ML research. 84 papers analyzed across multimodal models, efficiency optimization, and AI agents.Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTml-researchaipapersagentsmultimodalGitHub Pulse: Week of January 31, 2026https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/github-pulse-2026-01-31/https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/github-pulse-2026-01-31/AI agents went mainstream this week. OpenClaw hit 132k stars, MCP is becoming infrastructure, and vectorless RAG is challenging embeddings.Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTgithubtrendingaimcpagentsContext Is a Data Structure, Not a Stringhttps://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/context-is-a-data-structure/https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/context-is-a-data-structure/Why LLM agents degrade before hitting token limits, and how treating context as a graph with tiered compression changes everything.Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTllmopslong-contextagentscompressionBuild Your Blog with Astrohttps://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/build-your-blog-with-astro/https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/build-your-blog-with-astro/A simple guide on building and deploying your own content website using Astro and Cloudflare.Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTastrocloudflarecodexblogClosing the Loop on ML Evalshttps://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/closing-the-loop-on-evals/https://sean-website.seanmkoval.workers.dev/blog/closing-the-loop-on-evals/A practical framework for turning evaluation insights into deployable improvements.Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTevaluationreliabilityllmops