A Diary of an Engineer

Your browser does not support the audio element. I still remember the first time I watched Titanic . The scene that stayed with me wasn’t the iceberg or the chaos — it was the band . As the ship tilted and panic spread, the musicians kept playing. Their music was fragile, beautiful, and heartbreaking all at once. It was a reminder that even in endings, there can be dignity, and even in collapse, there can be art. As a software engineer today, I sometimes feel like I’m standing on that deck. AI is the iceberg on the horizon. I can already hear the creak of change in the industry — junior coding tasks being automated, debugging handled by machines , frameworks suggested by algorithms . Part of me wonders: am I one of the passengers scrambling for lifeboats, or am I part of the band, playing on as the old world sinks? There are moments when AI feels like the melody that lifts me.It takes away the drudgery of repetitive coding, freeing me to focus on design and creativity. It opens d...