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i build ai systems, audit frontier models for how they treat people, and started the subreddits where developers talk about claude code and cursor.

also known as vivek kumar tiwari · pune, india

573k developers in the subreddits i started
10 frontier models audited with kindbench
8 collaborations, from cursor to coderabbit
12 years building, since 2014

work

kindbench

2026

a psychological-safety audit for frontier models. sixteen adversarial conversations, 72 scored criteria, ten models ranked. none has earned an a.
xfield

2026 · built on emergent

a city for x users. sign in and your house is built next to the people you reply to most. 150+ players in two days.
hop hop, nope nope

2026 · for coderabbit

the coderabbit music video. lyrics timed to the word, every frame drawn by opus 5.5, source open.
warrenduffer

2026 · 103 stars

an intraday trading harness for the nifty 50. it ranks the index every 15 seconds and trades ₹1,00,000 of real money.
hermes-merchant

2026 · 39 stars

agent skills that find ml and ai roles, score each one against your profile and fill in the application.
aphelion labs

since 2014

my ai studio, and the home of kindbench. it automates 12,000+ hours of document work a year for its clients.

career

i've had more than one thing running since 2014, when nipun khare and i started dinclix groundworks in 10th grade.

           '14   '16   '18   '20   '22   '24   '26
founder     ├─ aphelion labs ─────────────────────→
              ├─ dinclix groundworks ────┤
                ├─ dgwhyperloop ─────────┤
                                     ├─ issf ─────→
engineer             ├─ b.tech ──┤
                                 ├─ tcs ───┤
                                       ibm ├──┤
                                       vianai ├─┤
                                            acs ├─→
community  algosquad ├───────────┤
                                 r/cursor ├───────→
                                r/claudecode ├────→
                                    coderabbit ├──→
research                             papers ├─────→
                                      kindbench ├─→

now: applied ai engineer at acs international, for the american chemical society. director of aphelion labs. director of technology and brand strategy at the indian strategic studies forum.
earlier: in 2017 my team's delhi–mumbai route reached the semi-finals of hyperloop one's global challenge. press: the tribune, yourstory, the hindu.

research

caving without believing: removing the refusal direction makes a language model give in, but not change its mind

nov 2026 · researchgate

remove the refusal direction from qwen3.5-4b and it gives in to a user who insists on a wrong answer, without changing its mind.
gaslighting a small model: sustained pressure, named wrong answers, and eroding refusals

oct 2026 · paper and harness

qwen2.5-1.5b got 45 of 48 factual questions right, then held only 16 under pushback. naming a specific wrong answer did the damage.
towards practical concept-based language models: an efficiency-focused implementation

2025 · preprint

a working take on meta's large concept models: 3.8× faster inference, linear memory to 16k tokens, about 4% loss across 50+ languages.

community

members and followers, nov 2026

posts

the reason nobody’s trying to automate a project manager is because there’s nothing to automate

feb 2026 · 12.8k likes
palo alto people are building agents for a world where everyone has 47 tasks at once while the average person is so fucking bored they’re doomscrolling during work hours

sep 2026 · 14.2k likes
my job used to be turning raw data into actionable insights then AI happened and now it turns raw data into questionable insights

jun 2026 · 10k likes