Hrutik

Building products.
Writing to understand.

I spend most of my time building software, reading, running, and thinking about startups, AI, and systems.

Most of these essays started as questions I couldn’t stop thinking about.

“Understanding is ecstasy.”
— Carl Segan

Hrutik

Blog posts


Ontology in AI: Why Machines Need a Map of Meaning
Ask ten people what "ontology" means and you'll get ten different answers. In AI, it's the formal structure that tells a system what things exist, what kinds of things they are, and how they relate to each other.
Jul 28, 2026
4 min read
The Scariest Side Effect of AI Nobody Talks About
Why instant answers and passive cognition are changing the way we think, and how I'm trying to rebuild depth.
Jul 10, 2026
4 min read