Hello. I am a senior IC at a prominent Silicon Valley tech giant working on software products that you probably use every day. I spend my waking hours staring at distributed systems architectures that look like plates of spaghetti, putting out fires caused by overzealous product managers, and reviewing PRs entirely written by Claude.
The Unconventional Meatbag
Unlike 99% of my colleagues who emerged from the womb clutching a LeetCode Premium subscription and a CS degree from Stanford, my background is a bit different. I hold graduate-level degrees in Medicine and Informatics.
That's right. I spent years learning how the human body fails (Medicine), then learned how healthcare data fails (Informatics), and now I get paid an exorbitant amount of money to watch highly scaled applications fail (Big Tech). It turns out, diagnosing a weird respiratory infection is surprisingly similar to debugging a memory leak in a mobile app, except the mobile app doesn’t complain about the hospital food.
Why AImageddon?
Because I am exhausted, and a bit scared tbh.
I have a front-row seat to the impending collapse of human cognitive ability. I watch brilliant engineers stop thinking and start prompting. We are building the most sophisticated abstraction layer in human history, and we're placing it directly over our own brains to avoid the mild discomfort of thinking.
So, I write this blog. It's a cynical, jaded log of the ship sinking while the orchestra plays a beautiful, AI-generated symphony in the background. Enjoy the decline.