Apr 14, 2026 — 4 min — Platform & AI
What AI Researchers Do That I Do Not
A short, honest read on what AI researchers actually do day to day, written from outside the role by an applied engineer who reads papers when the work demands it.
Tag: career
5 entries tagged "career" — 3 posts, 2 links.
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Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer
A senior data engineer's decade of candid career lessons — job mobility, technology stacks, management dynamics, and data-engineering-specific realities — delivered in a deliberately irreverent tone.
The value isn't novelty; it's calibration. The framing strips out the polish that makes most career advice easy to agree with and harder to actually use.
Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Senior Engineer
Loose title, useful theme. Senior engineering is less about cleverness and more about judgment, communication, taste, scope control, and knowing where complexity will hurt later.
Keeping this because it fits the thread running through the site: the work is technical, but the leverage often comes from deciding what not to build and how to make the consequences visible.