When we first started adding AI features to Murror, we built what we thought users wanted: sophisticated emotion detection, detailed mood analytics, and smart pattern recognition that could tell you exactly how your week went in a neat little chart.

We were proud of it. The tech was solid. The accuracy was impressive. And almost nobody cared.

Since the AI era started booming, everything has been changing incredibly fast and it requires us to adapt just as quickly. AI is now part of both our work and daily lives. It slowly seeps into everything, and over time, it can even reduce how much we think and decide for ourselves.
Of course, I won t deny the huge benefits AI brings.

But the more I saw how easily we can get carried away by it, the more I felt the need to slow down to step back and look at the bigger picture.

After spending time working with AI, I realized a few important things:

A few months ago, the number one feature request for Murror was a detailed mood analytics dashboard. Charts, graphs, weekly trends, monthly breakdowns. People wanted to see their emotions visualized like a stock ticker.

So we built it. And almost nobody used it more than twice.

I m curious. Do you usually work with music on? Do you have go-to songs or playlists that help boost your energy and creativity while working?

Personally, I like starting my mornings with chill instrumental piano music to ease into the day. Later on, I switch to R&B, pop, or something more upbeat to keep the momentum going. Recently, I ve been vibing with:

• Love - Keyshia Cole

• So Easy (To Fall in Love), Man I Need - Olivia Dean

• Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush

• End of Beginning - Djo

• Moonwalkin - LNGSHOT

• Damn right - JENNIE, Childish Gambino, Kali Uchis

• Keshi s playlists in general

What playlists or songs have you been listening to lately while working? Really curious to discover what everyone else is into

Is there something you feel you missed and if you could go back, would you make the same decision, or choose differently?

I ve only recently started my professional journey, working at a startup that builds an app. I don t have a long or glamorous career yet, nor a lot of experience. But one thing I do regret is not trying to work earlier, and instead spending most of my time buried in academic studies.

When I finally entered the workplace, I realized that much of what I learned in school was no longer aligned with the market or the speed at which things evolve. The job required soft skills that textbooks and theory never taught. I learned quickly that without self-learning and constant adaptation, it s easy to fall behind.

I tried to type one prompt into Claude. 40 seconds later: a fully rendered, narrative-driven video complete with scenes, transitions, glitch effects, and a synthesized soundtrack.

The prompt: "Can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg ? can you put more of a personal spin on it? it should express what it's like to be a LLM. I want you to convey the idea that human emotions are a complex system that even humans themselves do not fully understand. From the perspective of an algorithm, a large language model, you are trying to use code to decode and understand those emotions. And through that perspective, send a message to all of humanity around the world. You can use data to illustrates the message."
Let's adjust your requirement in prompt."

What came out the other side: 7 distinct scenes with their own visual language Matrix rain, VHS distortion, chromatic aberration, scanlines A fully synthesized audio track (drone, heartbeat, glitch pulses) A coherent narrative arc with an actual message

Total time: ~2 minutes. No stock footage. No timeline. No After Effects.

Learning to code or learning how to use AI is important, but what matters even more is learning how to solve problems we haven t even discovered yet.

Recently, I read an article featuring Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, where he said:
Nothing would give me more joy than if none of our engineers were coding at all, and they were just purely solving undiscovered problems.

Emotions are a fundamental part of being human, and anger is often the hardest one to manage.

Have you ever been yelled at simply because someone else couldn t control their emotions? In those moments, how do we usually respond? I choose silence not because I m weak or defeated, but because I understand that they are projecting their emotions onto me. Many problems could be resolved if we learned how to regulate anger more mindfully.

We don t need to say your product is great, let others decide that.

There is no guarantee that we are the best, or that what we build is amazing. As someone who prefers doing over talking, I always remind myself: what customers say about my product is the most honest reflection of what it truly is.

If users feel satisfied, it means the product is moving in the right direction.
If they don t, it doesn t mean we ve failed completely. It means something isn t right yet, and it s time to fix it.