Yesterday, TDengine officially launched TDengine IDMP, an AI-native Industrial Data Management Platform. When I woke up this morning and saw the flood of messages — and the surge in downloads and new user registrations — I was overwhelmed with excitement. As a software engineer, it felt clear: in the age of AI, I’m not being replaced. I’ve found a massive new opportunity — one that could keep me sprinting for another eight years. Today, I took two hours to write down this story — not just for myself, but to share with fellow founders, and especially with the engineers out there looking to ride the wave of AI.