Software Engineer. I love theoretical fields and designing complex systems bridging science and software.https://shevinunawalage.com/https://shevinunawalage.com/blog/natural-language-is-not-a-replacement-for-high-level-languages/https://shevinunawalage.com/blog/natural-language-is-not-a-replacement-for-high-level-languages/Compilers earned trust because they were deterministic. Natural language is ambiguous and LLMs sample their output, so prompting is a leap in productivity, not the next step after high-level languages.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shevinunawalage.com/blog/how-brain-rotted-are-we/https://shevinunawalage.com/blog/how-brain-rotted-are-we/We are delegating problem-solving to AI to maximize productivity, and paying for it in cognitive debt. What we lose when we stop thinking for ourselves, and how to pay it back.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://shevinunawalage.com/publications/named-entity-recognition-subsea-inspections/https://shevinunawalage.com/publications/named-entity-recognition-subsea-inspections/Research survey on how Named Entity Recognition (from rule-based systems to BERT) can turn ROV pilots' spoken inspection notes into structured data, cutting manual tagging in subsea pipeline inspections.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT