ML research & debugging notes

Achyuthan Sivasankar

Machine learning · systems · open source

New York University

M.S. Computer Science at NYU. I write about ML research, debugging stories, and the things I'm still figuring out as I go.

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Jun 2026When Docker Cache Lies: Debugging a Nightly Build Failure in vLLMHow a BuildKit bind-mount cache quirk broke vLLM nightly Docker images with ImportError: AnthropicOutputConfig — and how a SHA-256 checksum fixed it.

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