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BlogMay 30, 2026

Why I Started This Blog

A place for engineering notes, AI product thinking, and deployment lessons
Li Zimu
Why I Started This Blog
I started this blog as a public notebook for the kind of engineering work that is easy to lose once a project ships. Most useful software is not just the visible interface. It is also the set of choices behind it: how the system is shaped, where complexity is allowed to live, which parts are automated, and how the product behaves when something fails. I work as a full-stack engineer and AI engineer, so my work often moves across product interfaces, backend services, model integrations, deployment, and operations. That range creates a lot of practical questions:
  • How do you turn a product idea into a working system quickly?
  • How do you keep an AI feature useful after the first demo?
  • How do you design for latency, cost, errors, and observability?
  • How do you ship changes without making rollback difficult?
This site is where I will write through those questions. The goal is not to publish polished theory. The goal is to capture real engineering judgment: tradeoffs, implementation details, failure modes, and the small decisions that make software easier to operate. I expect the topics here to include full-stack product development, AI workflows, backend architecture, deployment notes, developer tooling, and lessons from building systems that need to keep working after they leave the local environment.
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