Subhash Jha

One India is a village I left after the third grade: mango trees, monsoon rain, and a rooftop full of stars. The other is where my professional life began, where I traded climbing trees for climbing stairs. A quiet essay on freedom, independence, and which of the two is the real me.

A year of aggressive AI adoption has taught me something the productivity dashboards don't show. The machine got faster. The humans didn't. And the gap between them is where most of the new chaos is coming from.

It started with the Facebook News Feed and ended with us mistaking dopamine for learning and notifications for community. A note on why uninstalling the app isn't enough anymore.

A quiet account of what it feels like to keep your job in an industry that's letting people go in waves. Notes from a tired engineer, written late at night.

AI made building software faster than it has ever been. It also made building bad software faster than it has ever been. Teams are confusing the two, and the cost is showing up everywhere except the dashboards that matter.

A career in software is long, but every individual quarter wants to feel like a startup. Here's how I think about saying no, splitting time, owning a calendar, and protecting the version of yourself that has to keep doing this for thirty more years.

For decades, software was a refuge for people who'd rather talk to a computer than a person. AI just took that conversation away, asking us to find our voices in a room full of humans instead.

In a large company you are not a person, you are an employee ID. A working engineer's honest take on golden handcuffs, ego-driven features, and why your loyalty belongs to your health and your team, not the org chart.