Mu-An Chiou

A software designer and engineer. Makes modest websites. Member of the Anti JavaScript JavaScript Club.

Lives in Taipei, Taiwan, and sometimes in Berlin. Previous home bases include New York, London, and Birmingham, UK.

As recent as Feb 6, 2026, self-employed. Sleeps, codes, crafts, learns German, bakes pretzels, and contributes accessibility and civic causes through advocacy and tech.


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24h Meow × 62 Hobby × 31 Books × 30 Cook × 31 Taiwan × 102 Travel × 64 Mails × 35 Self × 30 Plants × 38 Animals × 78 Polaroid × 16 Chat × 21 Oven × 55 Friends × 44

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A tabby cat with blue eyes perching on a floor mat by a window, looking forward. Brown tabby cat with white nose and yellow eyes rests on window bed, looking forward, close-up from outside of a window, softly-lit. Dark narrow alley between buildings with tangled wires, purple striped umbrella, green sign “工作室”​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Train interior with velvet emerald green seats and honey wood wall and brass trims Scaffolding for a building construction with a worker sitting on it working and a passerby looking towards it. Sun casting on the tarp showing it was in the afternoon Harsh shadow casted on a fence separating asphalt and rubble train track with banner of notice in Japanese hanging Train track in an urban environment with raised pavement and lots of cables running across on an autumn day with red leaves Tall beige tower with red antenna rising above green and orange autumn trees under sky A small Asian magpie, no blue feathers, stands on a wooden plant against a blurry forest background Two tabby cats share a small wooden perch by a window; one stands alert while the other lies below, looking displeased

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a table with a dinosaur figurine and other objects at a flea market two cats sitting on window cat beds a room with a bass guitar and bookshelves, with paintings hung with wooden frames on a concrete wall, with natural light coming from one side of the room. a restaurant with a large lantern from the ceiling The front of a temple, a stone pillar with dragon cravings on it a green metal street stand with various metal sea creature decorations on it a broken toilet by a brick wall a cat sitting on a window sill a cat sleeping on a window sill a cat sleeping on a window sill

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A friend told me to use LLM for something… and said it’s often correct in a particular area. Idk. I just asked one to rank some classic designs of flip clocks and it got things wrong and misattributed designers multiple times, then double down when I pointed it out.

I think LLMs are most correct in the things we don’t know the answer to. Sure, whatever you outputted must be true.

I also met up with a friend who works at one of the big LLM companies and he told me their product is getting so much better at coding at an incredible speed. So I asked him, is it better at x, y, and z? The things that made it basically unusable to me? The answer is no, and they are known issues people are still working on them. This really makes me wonder what the amazing developments were… if it continues to be incapable of doing the most basic things I can use help with?

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