Yuxuan Xie
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Yuxuan Xie
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Staff Software Engineer at Google. Also indie dev random stuff.

http://secount.com
http://layra.app
I have a conspiracy theory. Wall Street is pushing up stock market as a way to hold the entire country as hostage, because too many retirement accounts are invested in stocks. Any policies from the government that they dislike, they just dump the market as hard as possible so it will be reverted.
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Finally a little bit more useful now with opening images, moving, cropping and resizing, amid Nano Banana hype...

#buildinpublic #imageediting
November 25, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Joined the Tesla family today
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 AM
AGI ACHIEVED
November 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Took me 3 days to finally stabilize the rotation pivot. Neither Claude Sonnet 4.5 nor Gemini 3 could fix the issue after many attempts even with logging. Finally I told it to re-structure the DOM tree and re-implement it, and it worked...

#buildinpublic #imageeditor
November 21, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Asking Gemini 3 to make a meme and it worked...
November 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
November 18, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Did I just implement RESTful/CRUD APIs for UI data to be used by AI?

#buildinpublic #imageeditor
November 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Tomorrow I return to Google.
After a year as a solo founder, I built something nobody wanted, missed the AI wave, and even lost $200k trying to “trade my way out.”
Humbled, but still building. Time to reset.
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The nitty gritty details are killing me. Borders around the active layer. Zoom in/out. Opacity slider popup. Visibility toggle. I haven't even added a single more tool yet and I just remembered I need to be able to drag the canvas when zoomed in.😅

#buildinpublic
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
What it's like to be a coder with ADHD
November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
10+ years ago I thought about building an AI to help me grind in WOW. I learned the AI back then which was primarily deep neural networks, but I was not smart enough to dive deeper in the field. Now look at SIMA 2. The dream has come true!!

deepmind.google/sima
SIMA 2: A Gemini-Powered AI Agent for 3D Virtual Worlds
Introducing SIMA 2, the next milestone in our research creating general and helpful AI agents. By integrating the advanced capabilities of our Gemini models, SIMA is evolving from an instruction-foll…
deepmind.google
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Starts to add more functionalities to my image editor tool layra.app: Basic shortcuts and layers operations.

#buildinpublic
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Golden experience of bitcoin!

#bitcoin #jojo #goldenexperience
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Home cluster with Steam machines. Just need a hub to switch between machines.

#steam #steammachine
November 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Bought a domain, set up CI/CD with Docker and now it's available at layra.app! It's just a proof of concept of AI assisted image editor. No need to log in. All files are saved/loaded locally.

#buildinpublic
November 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM