The Year of the Co-Pilot: A 2025 Retrospective
From surviving the rejection/acceptance cycle of AAAI to navigating the brutal fall recruitment season and landing at Tencent, 2025 was a year of resilience. It was also the year AI became my second brain—transforming how I code, communicate, and create. Join me for a retrospective on balancing the digital grind with analog adventures, from the snows of Changbai Mountain to the joy of a perfect game of pool. This is how I said goodbye to student life and hello to the future.


