About

I’m Le Peng (also goes by Lauren). I build software with AI inside. Right now I’m doing my MSc in AI at HKUST.

What I’m into

• Tools and interfaces that help people make better decisions, not just faster ones.
• The boring infrastructure that makes AI products actually work in production, the part nobody tweets about.
• How technology re-shapes social life. (The reason my featured project is about post-pandemic loneliness, not AI productivity.)
• Writing things down. Reading other people’s notes. Pretending the difference between engineering and thinking isn’t a strict one.

What I’m not into

• AI demos that won’t run on Tuesday.
• Products that ask you to bond with them but don’t tell you what happens when the company runs out of money. (Which is also why I made a video paper about it.)
• Calling everything “AI-powered.”

Three semi-random facts

1. I prefer Cantonese restaurants where the menu has more dishes than the wall has space for.
2. I think the right way to test a hypothesis is to bet a friend a coffee on it.
3. I’ve shipped more side projects than I’ve finished books, which is something I’m trying to fix.

Find me

LinkedIn is the main one. Otherwise I’m, by design, a little hard to find online.