#Programming

Essays

The Best Part of AI Coding Wasn't the AI

A day at Cafe Cursor Beijing reminded me that the most valuable part of building with AI is still the people in the room.

The Illusion of Certainty

After heavy use of AI coding assistants during development, I went digging into why they fail — and what I found changed how I work with them.

USACO: From Bronze to Platinum

How specific problems changed the way I think — binary search under adversarial conditions, decomposing coupled systems, and turning exponential problems into linear ones.