I Built an AI to Rescue My Voice — After a Presentation Nearly Broke Me
Last Updated on April 15, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Mukundan Sankar
Originally published on Towards AI.
A reset, a sticky note, and the surprising rebuild that followed
I hate giving presentations! If you aren’t an extrovert, you may be able to relate. It started this Monday. Just as usual, I opened my work laptop, coffee in front of me, and silence to prep me for the week ahead. Just the previous night (yes, I did work Sunday night), I was working on a very complex Python script—one that was important for our team. I was writing code and preparing for it to be run on Monday.
So, I ran that Python script I’d written the night before—the one I’d tested three times—but this time? Nothing.
No output. No error. Just… stillness.
I checked the logs—they were empty. I restarted the kernel—nothing. The console looked back at me like it didn’t know who I was anymore.
And maybe it didn’t. Because that morning, it didn’t feel like something was off, just because of a broken Python script. A Jupyter notebook that doesn’t work. It was about something more profound. Something I hadn’t let myself feel for months.
We don’t talk about it often — what happens when the magic fades? Not the coding magic. The other kind. The spark that makes you want to create.
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