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i'm hrushikesh, an ai architect at te connectivity, bengaluru. i spent 4 years building dotnet apis and react apps, then a sudden NL-to-SQL project sent me down the AI rabbit hole and i never came back. joined as an ai engineer, now ai architect. these days i build rag pipelines and agents at work, and own the other side of it too: proper sdlc practices and infra so agents run without breaking rules, eval standards, memory pocs. free time, i do oss contributions. i live on my terminal, with my new buddy claude code, though nowadays i'm also friends with opencode.

* how i work

run it locally

i don't trust my understanding until i've broken something. i learned to code by reverse engineering a pubg hack script, got banned on two accounts figuring it out. same instinct now: i read mem0's code because a filter was behaving weirdly, not because a tutorial told me to.

nothing is wasted

4 years of fullstack development taught me how software actually works. i've replaced 20+ logic apps with a single centralized api, load tested with jmeter, shipped react apps people actually use. i've worked on 15+ projects that are in production: few i built from scratch, few i joined later, few i was the guy who handled them when anything went wrong. that's why my agents run in enterprise environments and not just in my terminal.

* why i write

i write blogs about things i read or learn. i've written many but only released a few, because my understanding on that concept wasn't concrete yet. every post that's live cleared that bar. my blogs are a digital representation of my thinking, it's my place on the internet.

* books

i read a mixed variety: ai papers one day, stoic philosophy the next. here are the ones that shaped how i think and work.

on building

  • introduction to agents, alan blount, antonio gulli et al. (google)
  • agentic design patterns, antonio gulli

on thinking

  • the almanack of naval ravikant, eric jorgenson
  • atomic habits, james clear
  • how to stop worrying and start living, dale carnegie

on grit

  • can't hurt me, david goggins
  • discipline is destiny, ryan holiday

on people

  • how to win friends and influence people, dale carnegie
  • tuesdays with morrie, mitch albom
  • half torn hearts, novoneel chakraborty