AI Coding Journey vs Destination, the Skill atrophy

We Already Left the Road AI writes better code, faster. What it’s quietly taking with it is the debugging sessions, wrong turns, and war-room scars that used to turn people into engineers. There’s a difference between traveling and arriving, and I don’t think enough people are talking about it. Picture a group of friends driving an SUV from point A to point B. You don’t just cover distance — you get a flat tire at 2 AM and it becomes a story. You take a wrong turn that costs three hours and it becomes a scar you’re weirdly fond of. Someone forgets to fill the tank and you’re all pushing the damn thing half a mile down a dark road, laughing because what else are you going to do. You arrive tired, dirty, and a little different than when you left. ...

September 25, 2026 · 6 min · Druhin Dhavala

AI Gave Us Superpowers. Now We're Just Scrolling Faster.

AI Gave Us Superpowers. Now We’re Just Scrolling Faster. A friend of mine, Ross, told me something last week that I haven’t stopped thinking about. He’s been using AI at work for a few months. On Tuesday he finished a client report in forty minutes, something that normally eats most of his afternoon. He leaned back feeling pretty smug, opened Instagram “for a second,” and looked up to find it was dinnertime. Two and a half hours, gone, and he couldn’t tell me where. ...

September 18, 2026 · 3 min · Druhin Dhavala

We're Hiring AI Talent Nobody Knows How to Evaluate

We’re Hiring AI Talent Nobody Knows How to Evaluate, for Roles Nobody Defined, to Solve Problems Nobody Quantified And we’re calling it “strategy.” Here’s a question nobody in the leadership wants to answer out loud: If AI itself is barely out of diapers, how exactly do you — the hiring manager — know you’re hiring the right person? Doesn’t matter if it’s a staff ML engineer or your first SVP of AI. The problem is identical. You’re evaluating a skillset that has no established benchmark, for a discipline that hasn’t completed a single full enterprise implementation cycle, against outcomes nobody has quantified. ...

September 9, 2026 · 5 min · Druhin Dhavala

AI Influencer Authenticity: The Vacuum After the Scars

AI Influencer Everyone on the planet is now an AI Influencer - easy peasy While i am NO influencer, one of my friends casually asked, since you write and post on LI/Substack - whats your cadence? How often do you write and what do you write about That made me think, what has become of this world today, and in a sad way. For everyone has access to AI, a simple prompt injection and viola - a readymade story is available in seconds that you can post. Which is fully structured, no grammatical mistakes, conveys the point from multiple angles. Throw in an AI image and you have all the ingredients needed for a potentially Viral content in professional capacity on LI/Substack. ...

August 31, 2026 · 3 min · Druhin Dhavala

AI & Humanity: The Point of No Return

AI and Human Race - Point of NO return This post is NOT curated NOR written by AI, for a reason Purely from ONE human to another While everyone is busy with the #AI bandwagon in different capacities such as Some doing AI/RAG/LLM Others making $ in NVDA and others While majority have replaced search engine aka google with AI tool of their choice for everyday activities What we completely lost is that, this is a HUMANITY altering event that NEVER took place, not at least in the past 1000’s of years. ...

July 26, 2026 · 3 min · Druhin Dhavala