I Never Wrote a Line of Code. I Built Enterprise Software by Chatting with AI.

What happens when the barrier between knowing what to build and building it quietly disappears.

Balaji
Balaji2026-04-1312 min readSupporter

I am not a software engineer. Never have been.

For a decade the person who understood the problem best was almost never the person who could build it; conversational AI collapses that hand-off into a single person.

But I've won a $2.5M international grant funded by the European Union for my startup, backed by the University of California, and managed a team of 40 engineers spread across four continents.

I went to India's premier engineering school, IIT. Did R&D at ETH Zurich, RWTH Aachen, the German Aerospace Center. Business development and consulting across Germany and France. Entrepreneurship across three continents - Europe, Asia and now Silicon Valley.

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