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Ananda Poudel

builds AI systems. runs farfield labs. ships small things on purpose.

NAME

ananda - software engineer, founder of farfield labs, occasional comedian enabler

SYNOPSIS

ananda [--farfield] [--open-source] [--blog] [--resume]

DESCRIPTION

Runs Farfield Labs, a tiny studio that makes AI products and open source agent tooling. ProQualityLabs, the newest, does quality management for manufacturers. Three AI apps live on Cloudflare Workers, about a thousand people a day use them, and the infra bill rounds to zero.

Before that, eight years at Cargill helping build the agentic AI platform: model routing, sandboxed tool execution, agent memory, tracing, and the eval harness every prompt change had to pass.

OPTIONS

the apps. proqualitylabs, dejabit, citecheck, playhal
durastep and schemascore, small python libraries for agents that behave
notes from prod. things that broke and what they taught me. did you get the memo? this is the memo
the long version, printable. PC LOAD LETTER permitting

ENVIRONMENT

TABS=always   SPACES=unset   COMPRESSION=middle-out

EXIT STATUS

0 if shipped. 1 if it works on my machine. 2 if someone scheduled a meeting to discuss the meeting.

BUGS

Will name a side project before writing its first line of code.

Went from eight different bosses to zero. Kept the stapler.

SEE ALSO

email@anandapoudel.com. say hi.

FARFIELD LABS pre-revenue // farfieldlabs.io, things i'm building now

proqualitylabs

quality management for manufacturers. every nonconformance recorded once, priced as it happens, and traced to its root cause

proqualitylabs.com
dejabit

tells a comedian if their joke has already been done. vector search finds the suspects, an llm judges the premise

dejabit.app
citecheck

asks the AI assistants whether they'd recommend your brand, every day, and tells you when the answer changes

citecheck.me
playhal

a real time party game where some of the players are AI. they have to follow the rules. your friends don't

playhal.app

“If you show revenue, people will ask how much, and it will never be enough. But if you have no revenue, you can say you’re pre-revenue!” — Russ Hanneman

OPEN SOURCE // pip install, no strings

durastep

one decorator so a retried agent never charges the card twice. sqlite backed, zero dependencies, honest about its limits

pypi.org/project/durastep
schemascore

scores structured llm output field by field and fails CI when a field gets worse

pypi.org/project/schemascore

RECENT POSTS // whenever there is something worth saying

Sep 21, 2026I Have Never Done an Open Mic. I Built a Tool for Comedians Anyway.ai Sep 12, 2026Your Eval Set Is Lying to You: Data Leakage in Small Fine-Tunesai Sep 2, 2026Prompt Injection Is the New SQL Injection and We're Repeating 2005security

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