--- title: "Usamah Zaheer's blog" description: "Writings on machine learning, edge computing, robotics, and software engineering by Usamah Zaheer." canonical_url: "https://www.usamah.me/blog" author: "Usamah Zaheer" date_modified: "2026-09-15" --- # Usamah Zaheer's blog 9 posts on machine learning, edge computing, robotics and software engineering. Append `.md` to any post URL for its Markdown source. ## We Can All Bake Bread 2026-09-14, updated 2026-09-15. 362 words. Usamah Zaheer on why AI letting anyone build their own software will not kill software companies. Everyone can bake bread and almost everyone still buys it, because nobody wants to be the baker. - HTML: https://www.usamah.me/blog/we-can-all-bake-bread - Markdown: https://www.usamah.me/blog/we-can-all-bake-bread.md ## AI Is Making Everyone Sound the Same 2026-08-24. 1154 words. Usamah Zaheer argues that when everyone runs their thinking through the same models, outputs converge, and the scarce skill shifts from generating an answer to knowing whether it is any good. - HTML: https://www.usamah.me/blog/ai-is-making-everyone-sound-the-same - Markdown: https://www.usamah.me/blog/ai-is-making-everyone-sound-the-same.md ## Stop Latency Laundering 2026-08-10, updated 2026-08-11. 254 words. Usamah Zaheer names latency laundering, the habit of moving delay outside the measurement boundary until a slow system reports a fast number. - HTML: https://www.usamah.me/blog/latency-laundering - Markdown: https://www.usamah.me/blog/latency-laundering.md ## The Next Trillion-Dollar AI Opportunity Is Not Bigger Models 2026-08-10. 1318 words. Usamah Zaheer argues the next trillion-dollar AI opportunity is not another model lab. It is the infrastructure that makes intelligence cheap enough to run on billions of devices. - HTML: https://www.usamah.me/blog/trillion-dollar-ai-opportunity - Markdown: https://www.usamah.me/blog/trillion-dollar-ai-opportunity.md ## Inside the Black Box: ML Compiler Optimisation from a Practitioner at Arm 2025-04-15. 1417 words. Usamah Zaheer explains ML compiler optimisation from a practitioner perspective at Arm, covering graph optimisation, kernel selection, and the profiling feedback loop. - HTML: https://www.usamah.me/blog/compiler-optimization-for-ml - Markdown: https://www.usamah.me/blog/compiler-optimization-for-ml.md ## Why Edge ML Inference is the Next Frontier 2025-03-20. 2393 words. Usamah Zaheer explains why on-device ML inference is the future, drawing on experience optimising models at Arm and deploying perception systems at Dyson. - HTML: https://www.usamah.me/blog/edge-ml-inference - Markdown: https://www.usamah.me/blog/edge-ml-inference.md ## I Gave a Robot Eyes and a Brain: VLMs in Real-World Robotics 2025-02-15. 1209 words. The gap between a VLM demo on Twitter and a VLM running on a real robot is enormous. Usamah Zaheer shares what he learned closing that gap at Dyson. - HTML: https://www.usamah.me/blog/vlms-in-robotics - Markdown: https://www.usamah.me/blog/vlms-in-robotics.md ## Applying CNNs to Satellite Imagery: Lessons from Forest Fire Detection 2025-02-01. 1029 words. Usamah Zaheer shares lessons from applying CNNs to high-resolution satellite imagery for forest fire detection at the University of Leicester. - HTML: https://www.usamah.me/blog/satellite-imagery-cnns - Markdown: https://www.usamah.me/blog/satellite-imagery-cnns.md ## What I Learned Building AI Agents at a Stealth Startup 2025-01-10. 1201 words. Usamah Zaheer built AI agent systems from scratch at a stealth startup. Here is what the hype gets right, what it gets wrong, and why he chose to go back to school. - HTML: https://www.usamah.me/blog/building-ai-agents - Markdown: https://www.usamah.me/blog/building-ai-agents.md ## Every post in one file https://www.usamah.me/llms-full.txt RSS: https://www.usamah.me/rss ## This page in other formats - Canonical HTML: https://www.usamah.me/blog - Markdown: the same path with `.md` appended - Site index for models: https://www.usamah.me/llms.txt - Whole site as one file: https://www.usamah.me/llms-full.txt - Structured CV: https://www.usamah.me/profile.json - Endpoint manifest: https://www.usamah.me/agents.json