Relying on AI without losing yourself
AI outages reveal how much thinking we've outsourced - and why resilience means using the speed without losing the skill.
•10 min read
Learning, building, writing.
in public.
Hi, I'm Rithwik. I build AI/ML systems and write about what actually works — not just what sounds good in theory.
I share notes from shipping ML features in production: the tradeoffs, edge cases, and practical patterns that actually hold up.
Latest writing
Building an AI-based web application
Hard lessons from shipping AI products: avoid MVP traps, choose boring architectures, and design for production from day one.
•29 min read
Why most AI demos never ship
The gap between 'wow this works' and 'customers use this daily' is where most AI products die. Here's what actually matters.
•5 min read
Small things lately
- Margins in the day help ideas breathe.
- Progress looks boring up close; obvious in hindsight.
- Write to figure out what you think.