Post by Sai Charan L

A 33-year-old TCS senior dev in Bengaluru wrote to me Tuesday. "My VP asked me to 'own the AI initiative' for our account. I have no idea what to do. He wants a proposal by Friday." The exact moment that decides the next 5 years of his career. Two options: A) Spend the week reading articles, write a 9-page proposal that sounds like every other proposal, get a polite nod, watch the project never start. B) Spend the week talking to 3 people on the account (test lead, BA, support engineer), find one workflow that wastes 90+ minutes a day for one of them, propose a 6-week build of one tool that compresses it to 15 minutes, with one named owner. Option B is the move. Specific enough that the manager can defend it to the client, small enough to actually ship, visible enough that your name attaches to a real outcome. The demo on the VP's laptop, on real client inputs, in week 8, is what shifts your title from "tech lead" to "the person who actually shipped AI on this account." #AIUpskilling #IndianIT #MidCareerEngineer Skip this if you've already shipped one LLM thing in production. You can write the Friday proposal yourself. Comment your project domain + your role. I'll reply with the 4-question discovery script we use to find the workflow. First 40 replies. Senior devs: have you been handed a vague "own the AI initiative" ask? What did you build instead of a deck?