Dilip Chetan's path into tech started with a plan that fell apart, and a bet on himself that put him at Oracle. Twenty years later, his career runs through Salesforce, Intuit, Meta and Google. At Meta he ran one of the company's largest human-AI interaction studies, tuning how Reels decides what you see next. Today he's the founder of Defensible Zone, building tools that help people find the work AI can't take from them.

In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, host Madhusudan Bangalore Nagaraja sits down with Dilip for a frank talk with students and early-career engineers. They get into how much your feed knows about you, why AI is splitting the engineering profession in two, and the one signal that tells you whether your role is getting safer or slipping away.

They cover:

— What a Kevin Hart joke reveals about how much recommendation engines know about you

— Why engineers build things just to see if they can, and what that costs the rest of us

— How engineering roles got pigeonholed, and why AI is splitting the profession in two

— The honest advice he'd give a CS graduate who can't find tech work

— The one signal that tells you whether your role is becoming more defensible or less

Part 2, for leaders, is coming soon.

 Connect with Dilip Chetan:
 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dilipchetan
 Defensible Zone: defensiblezone.ai 

Connect with your host Madhusudan Bangalore Nagaraja:
 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/madhusudannagaraja/
 IEEE Senior Member, Technical Delivery Manager, eSystems Inc. | PMI Infinity Advisory Committee | Irving, Texas, USA

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