The Chronicles
Dispatches from the road — AI engineering, systems that broke and why, eight languages, and the parts of the degree nobody puts on a CV.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.