Snehal Patel

Snehal Patel

I build GenAI systems that don’t stay in notebooks. From pre-training transformers to fine-tuning SLMs to serving them at scale, I own the whole stack from first token to P99.

Recent Posts

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Aug 15, 2026

The History of LLMs, 2023 to 2026

Somewhere around the ninth “OpenAI just announced” Slack message in a single week, I gave up trying to hold the timeline in my head. Model names stopped mapping...

16 min read
Aug 4, 2026

Write the Policy at Inference Time: Shieldstral 1.0 3B for Local Text and Image Moderation

7 min read
Jul 7, 2026

What Anthropic's J-space Actually Is (and Isn't)