Will AI put you out of a job? A staff mobile engineer’s view
AI will remove tasks, compress teams and change the engineering ladder. The durable advantage is not typing code faster; it is owning outcomes.
Writing / Essays
Original essays on mobile architecture, engineering leadership and practical AI systems. A separate, deliberately short reading list covers useful Android, Kotlin Multiplatform and iOS references.
Specific approaches, trade-offs and lessons from building and operating software.
AI will remove tasks, compress teams and change the engineering ladder. The durable advantage is not typing code faster; it is owning outcomes.
Before shipping model-assisted behaviour, pressure-test user value, failure modes, privacy, observability, human control, cost and long-term ownership.
Architecture becomes staff-level work when the decision survives contact with product constraints, team ownership and delivery.
A practical boundary for Kotlin Multiplatform: share product truth and keep navigation, presentation and platform conventions native.