Cheng Lou
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Cheng Lou
@_chenglou
Worked on: @reactjs, @messenger, @reasonml, @rescriptlang Currently: @midjourney, Pretext
California, USA
chenglou.me
Joined January 2015
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    Cheng Lou
    @_chenglou
    Mar 14
    I’m very happy to present my toy research project: Sotaku! It's a neural net that automatically discovered the rules of sudoku and learned to solve them, achieving a new state-of-the-art score of 98.9% on one of the hardest sudoku datasets, while being agnostic to the game, and
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    Cheng Lou
    @_chenglou
    Jan 25, 2025
    When your date sends you the simplest message
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    Cheng Lou
    @_chenglou
    Oct 22, 2025
    It finally happened. I've got a giant merge conflict and both sides were vibe coded and I don't recognize either. Now I'm vibe merging the conflicts too
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    Cheng Lou
    @_chenglou
    Sep 24, 2025
    How's nobody talking about the hand-rolled Apple UI
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    Riley Walz
    @rtwlz
    Sep 23, 2025
    I reverse engineered the San Francisco parking ticket system. I can see every ticket seconds after it's written So I made a website. Find My Friends? AVOID THE PARKING COPS.
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    Cheng Lou
    @_chenglou
    Feb 7, 2025
    Worst thing to do when you're full of agency is to wake up and browse Twitter
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    Cheng Lou
    @_chenglou
    Feb 24, 2025
    Only $0.08 to show the files in my folders! Checkmate programmers
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    Cheng Lou
    @_chenglou
    Oct 29, 2025
    As someone with a bit of insider info (sorry for baiting), I can tell you that the current trajectory for Apple would likely have been better off if he ended up CEO. Look up his background and interests I’ll forever be a Forstall simp. The guy can code & coded the right things
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    Aaron
    @aaronp613
    Oct 29, 2025
    Scott Forstall was fired from Apple 13 years ago today after the disastrous launch of Apple Maps
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    Cheng Lou
    @_chenglou
    Dec 30, 2024
    Btw airbus uses the CompCert, a formally verified C compiler written in Cow and OCaml, by by the creator of OCaml himself. Basically zero bug
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    @levelsio
    @levelsio
    Dec 29, 2024
    The ONLY planes left with ZERO fatal accidents now: 🇪🇺 Airbus A350 🇪🇺 Airbus A380 🇨🇳 Comac C919 🇪🇺 Airbus A319/A320/A321 Neo 🇪🇺 Airbus A340 🇺🇸 Boeing 717 (MD-95) 🇺🇸 Boeing 747-8 🇪🇺 Airbus A300 Beluga 🇺🇸 Boeing 787 Dreamliner 🇺🇸 SpaceX Crew Dragon From my site
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    Cheng Lou
    @_chenglou
    Jan 7, 2022
    Using React
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    Cheng Lou
    @_chenglou
    Aug 30, 2024
    - Owns VSCode - Owns GitHub - Owns OpenAI (basically) - Owns npm - Pioneered in-editor AI with a 3-year lead - Drops the ball on editor autocompletion to indies Is Copilot ok
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