MX Mark Xian Building in Guangdong

Product engineer / AI systems 23.1291° N, 113.2644° E
Field note 08.03.26

I make AI feel useful.

I’m Mark, a frontend engineer and product builder. I turn new AI capabilities into products people can actually use — from agentic interfaces to privacy-first developer tools.

An abstract studio assembly of acrylic plates, cables, a metal module, and a blue glass lens, representing connected ideas becoming a working system
System study / 002
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23.1291 / 113.2644
Signal → structureProduct thinking
Interface design
Engineering depth
Current inquiry: how agents can work with visual canvases,
instead of only replying in chat.
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Agentic interfacesVisual thinkingPrivacy-first toolsOpen sourceAgentic interfacesVisual thinkingPrivacy-first toolsOpen source

Working principle / 01

Find the hard interaction. Make it feel obvious. Then ship the whole thing.

02 / Now building

03 / Selected systems

Tools with a point of view.

04 / Signal report

The shape of the practice.

10+Merged upstreamSmall patches across tools used in real projects.
06Mini systemsFrameworks rebuilt to understand their moving parts.
01Current obsessionAgents that can shape a canvas, not only write a reply.

05 / Open-source impact

Small patches. Real codebases.

07 / Close the loopGuangdong, China · GMT+8

Have a hard interaction worth solving?