Zijian's Blog

I read many inspiring writings from others, here I try to write my own.

Trying auto-research with Anthropic's performance engineering take-home test

Beat the best human candidates with less than 5 sentences.

4 min read · March 09, 2026

2026 · ai
There is no first principle

There is no such thing as a first principle, and that's why it is important.

4 min read · March 01, 2026

2026 · general
A Future of Software Engineering

This post describes one possible future of software engineering.

5 min read · February 21, 2026

2026 · software, AI · general
But who is compiling the compiler?

This blog talks about the bootstrapping process in compilers, to bootstrap my blog.

2 min read · August 11, 2025

2025 · compilers · tech