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.
•7 min read
Writing about what I buildlearnthink.
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
The retrieval problem nobody talks about
RAG tutorials skip the hardest part: your documents are messy, your users ask weird questions, and precision matters more than recall.
•4 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.