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Mrithyunjay K
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What Mrithyunjay is looking for
My dream role is being the first (or only) designer at a company building an AI-native product, where I own the entire design surface end to end. Not "design lead" in the sense of managing a team and running critiques. More like the person who talks to users in the morning, sketches a solution at lunch, prototypes it in code by evening, and ships it with engineering by end of week. I want the shortest possible distance between identifying a problem and putting a fix in front of real people. The product has to be AI-native. Not "we added a chatbot to our dashboard." I mean a product where AI is the core interaction model, where the design challenge isn't just layout and typography (though I care deeply about those), but figuring out how humans and AI systems communicate, build trust, and share control. That's the most interesting design problem of our generation and I want to be in the middle of it. I don't have a strong preference for B2B or B2C. I've done B2B at Zuper and enjoyed it. What matters more is whether the product touches real workflows and whether the users actually depend on it. A developer tool, a banking app, a field service platform, I don't care as long as the design decisions have weight. Stage-wise, I want to be early enough that there's no design system yet because I'm the one building it. Early enough that the brand language, the component library, the interaction patterns are all open questions. That's where I do my best work. Give me ambiguity, a codebase, and access to users, and I'll figure out the rest.
Why Mrithyunjay is exploring
Honestly? The window feels like it's right now. We're at this weird inflection point where AI tools have gotten good enough that a single designer who can code can do what used to take a small team. Cursor, Claude Code, vibe coding, these aren't buzzwords to me. I use them every day. They've fundamentally changed how fast I can go from idea to working product. But this window won't stay open forever. Right now, companies building AI-native products need designers who understand the medium, not just the pixels. In two years, every designer will know how to prompt and prototype in code. The advantage of being early will flatten out. I want to be at a company where I'm shaping the product during this period, not joining after the patterns have already been set. I'm not running away from Zuper. I still enjoy the work. But I'd rather make a move because the timing is right than wait until it's comfortable. The best career decisions I've seen people make were never about escaping something bad. They were about running toward something that wouldn't wait.
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I built a homelab from scratch. Not a NAS with Docker, a proper network: dedicated OPNsense router, Proxmox hypervisor, AdGuard Home for DNS, Tailscale for VPN, reverse proxy on an Oracle Cloud ARM VM. I've spent weekends debugging PCIe link training failures on network cards and tracking down a bad Ethernet cable that was silently wrecking my entire network. Nobody pays me to do this. I just can't leave broken systems alone. I also built an ESP32-based AirPlay audio receiver with a DAC because I wanted lossless streaming without buying an overpriced AirPlay device. Spent a whole weekend with no audio output before discovering a single pin needed to be pulled high to unmute the chip. That's my idea of a fun weekend. On the product side, I watched a roofing technician nearly drop his phone off a roof while trying to type job notes. That turned into AI Walkthrough at Zuper, where technicians just talk while recording video and AI handles the rest. Documentation time went from 30 minutes to 10. 100% adoption. The thread connecting all of this: I see a problem that bothers me, and I build something to fix it. Doesn't matter if it's a network, a DAC, or a guy on a ladder trying to type with one hand.
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