I got my first computer in 2010 and soon after started making software do what I wanted. Game bots and add-ons, the kind of code nobody asks you to write. Around 2021 the interest turned from making machines do tricks to making them useful: data science, then AI in products people rely on.
Today I'm CTO and full-time engineer of a small team: I own the architecture, the infrastructure, the AI pipeline and the release process, and I translate what research and pedagogy need into robust systems. I still teach at HEIA-FR: the fastest way I know to find out which of my convictions survive contact with a room full of students.
The questions I care about are rarely purely technical: build it or buy it, how far to trust the machine, what to teach someone who will work beside one.