Adi Singh

Contact

adi@reasonmachines.com
San Francisco, CA
Github
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About

I am a programmer that likes to talk to AI. I am building Reason Machines, bringing personal computing and agents to everyone (Y Combinator P26). Before that, I co-founded Dereference under Entrepreneur First, where we built a multiprocessing IDE in Rust. I studied NLP, math and CS at UC Berkeley and EECS at NTNU, where I worked on recreating MuZero with Cogito NTNU and on technical finance for the Orbit NTNU satellite team.

Research

Recursive Transformer Modules (RTMs)
Adi Singh
OS12 Research, technical draft
paper
Async + Parallel LLM Coding Agents
Adi Singh
OS12 Research, technical draft
paper
Benchmarking Classic and Modern RL Algorithms: REINFORCE, DQN, and Tabular Q-Learning on CartPole-v1
Adi Singh, Jan Christian Meyer
NTNU Department of Computer Science 2025
paper
AI-Based Matchmaking (CatMatch): A Novel Convolutional Neural Network Approach to Preference Learning
Adi Singh
Cogito NTNU 2023
Cost-Efficient Treatment Methods for Hydrocephalus: Data Analysis and Optimization
Adi Singh
MIT Biogen Community Lab 2022

Other

Local Code: A local-first IDE in Rust that runs code generation entirely on-device through Ollama
TheLocalLlama: Retrieval-grounded local search agent built on Llama 3.3
PlanetLens: Satellite imagery change detection for monitoring the UN Sustainable Development Goals
AlphaZero: Self-play reinforcement learning with Monte Carlo Tree Search and a policy-value network for Connect Four

Awards

1st place, Jane Street Estimathon 2024
2nd place, Start Code 2024
3rd place, OpenAI and ElevenLabs Hackathon 2025
4th place, Meta Hackathon 2025
Finalist, Gemini Hackathon 2025
2x Finalist, TripleTex Hackathon 2024

Writing

The world belongs to hackers (2026)
The Power of Rejection in Science (2025)
Weekends (2025)
Investing long term (2025)
The Abundance of Open Source: a gift to humanity (2025)
How To Be Successful - Sam Altman (2024)
Music, Content, and Books: Choosing who you are (2024)
Prompt Engineering Lessons from OpenAI (2023)
Why Hardware is the King of Software (2023)
Process to Greatness (2020)