AI Broke My Hands: A Confession About Vibe Coding
Two years of AI-assisted everything has quietly dismantled my ability to solve problems unassisted and type code from scratch. An honest audit of the damage.
- AI
- Confession
- Craft
Writing
Technical notes, research lessons, and personal reflections.
2026
Limbo: Waiting on a Visa That Almost Certainly Says Yes
Back in the UK, Graduate Route application in, a job offer declined, and a part-time job I legally could do but can't get. A post about bureaucratic purgatory.
- Life
- Visa
Done: MSc Finished, Merit Earned, and the 1.8% That Taught Me the Most
Last exam on January 19th, flight home on the 20th, result a month later. Graduated with Merit — and the lesson that cost me Distinction wasn't academic.
- Life
- Masters
2025
Scribbles on Gaussians: Interactive 3D Segmentation with SAGA
Dissertation, round two: building scribble-guided segmentation and 3D floater filtering on top of SAGA (Segment Any 3D Gaussians) — and learning to describe my own work precisely.
- Masters
- Dissertation
- 3D
- Segmentation
Dissertation, Round One: Losing to Flash3D
My first dissertation direction was feed-forward 3D reconstruction with Flash3D. The pipeline won. A post about the false start nobody puts on their CV.
- Masters
- Dissertation
- 3D
The Silence Is the Loudest Part — Starting My MSc AI at Surrey
A February intake, a new country, and the strange quiet of university accommodation. First impressions of postgraduate life in England.
- Life
- Masters
2024
Four Years Done — Graduating in Computer Engineering with Honours in AI/ML
Closing the chapter on my bachelor's at NBNSSOE, Pune University — an 8.61 CGPA, a head full of theory, and an honest accounting of what I still can't do.
- Life
- Education
2022
How Lockdown Turned Me Into a Polyglot
The world shut down, so I moved into Discord language servers — three weeks to a Spanish accent that fooled natives, then Mandarin, and a dozen scripts down the rabbit hole.
- Life
- Languages