July 22, 2026English article
AI Hype: My Thoughts
On AI pressure, the fear of falling behind, and choosing to learn and build at your own pace.
About me
Hi, I'm Mary.
I study computer science in Zhengzhou. Most of my work is backend engineering: APIs, background jobs, developer tools, and small AI applications.
I use this site for project notes, questions I am still working through, and thoughts on programming, AI, books, and life between Russia and China.
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Selected projects
Three projects I currently keep pinned on GitHub. I care more about the problem and the engineering choices than a long list of tools.
Codex Usage Watch
A local CLI that turns recorded weekly usage changes into a five-hour Codex estimate. It keeps the history in SQLite and reports status, warning levels, and diagnostics while you keep working.
CLI · SQLite · Shell
ResolveAI
A full-stack support-ticket system with JWT authentication, role-based permissions, automatic routing through Redis and RQ, SLA tracking, and durable AI analysis. The React staff workspace uses the FastAPI backend.
FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Redis + RQ · React
Telegram Filer
A self-hosted Telegram bot that gives one approved user access to allowlisted folders on your laptop from anywhere. It searches filenames and file contents, previews or downloads files, moves confirmed deletions to trash, and opens no inbound port.
Python · Telegram Bot API · systemd
Working toolkit
The tools behind the projects above. I list what I use, not every library I have opened once.
- Core
- Python, TypeScript, SQL
- Backend
- FastAPI, Pydantic, SQLAlchemy, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Testing and delivery
- pytest, Docker, GitHub Actions, Linux
- Applied AI
- structured outputs, evaluation cases, provider APIs, faster-whisper