Ning Ren

When I was 10, everything felt impossibly curious. I was fascinated by how computer games were made, but the internet wasn't widespread yet. So I self-taught C programming by reading books, writing cool programs with pure creativity and boundless wonder.

Years later, after academia and the CS industry, I had learned and grown tremendously. But somewhere along the way, I realized I'd lost that initial spark—that raw curiosity and excitement. My knowledge and experience had grown, yet they paradoxically became the very constraints that restricted my creativity and imagination.

The Tao Te Ching captures this beautifully: "为道日损，损之又损，以至于无为，无为而无不为"—in pursuing wisdom, we must learn to unlearn, to reduce rather than accumulate, until effortless creation becomes possible again.

Today, LLM and AI agents represent that unique opportunity—a chance for everything in CS to be reimagined. Software will be created in ways we've never seen before. This website is my attempt to start over, to return to my 10-year-old self with pure freedom of mind, and recreate that sense of wonder.

Ex-Googler, ex-ML-infra at Pony AI, now founding VibeTrading.dev. This is my technical blog showcasing ideas, demos, and research born from rediscovered curiosity.