Vibhu Tripathi

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ArticleSeptember 3, 2026

Chips aren't the only bottleneck on abundant intelligence. 200 acres with a power path is the other.

Siting an AI data center is a search across 59 parameters. I built an agent harness to run that search, and made it report how much it doesn't know.

#ai-infrastructure#data-centers#ai-agents#geospatial#energy#site-selection
ArticleAugust 17, 2026

The age of the 10x engineer is ending. The 100x pipeline is next.

Coding agents are turning software development into a production-line problem. The durable advantage will be the pipeline, not the individual coder.

#ai-agents#software-factory#agent-pipelines#engineering#codefac
ArticleSeptember 12, 2022

5G unblocked BVLOS in a weekend. The paperwork took eighteen months.

What I learned trialing 5G-enabled UTM and BVLOS drone operations: the network was never the bottleneck.

#drones#5g#utm#bvlos#regulation
ArticleJuly 15, 2021

MARL trained the policy in weeks. Sim-to-real took the rest of the year.

Building multi-agent RL for tactical drone deconfliction in 2021. The training was the easy half — the simulator was the lie.

#drones#rl#marl#utm#sim-to-real
ArticleSeptember 4, 2019

Federated airspace isn't a technical decision. It's a trust decision.

In 2019 we pivoted Vizzbee to a federated UTM architecture. The reason wasn't latency or scale. It was that no single party could be trusted to run the center.

#drones#utm#architecture#distributed-systems#vizzbee
ArticleNovember 8, 2018

The drone topped out at 0.5 m/s. None of it was the EKF's fault.

In 2018 we built drone autonomy on a T265, D435, Jetson Nano, and an EKF fusing VIO with GPS. The velocity ceiling wasn't where I expected it.

#drones#slam#visual-inertial-odometry#ros#jetson-nano#ekf