A software engineer reflects on 2025, covering professional growth through building a constraint solver and KCL programming language work at Zoo, speaking at four Rust conferences globally, starting Austin Systems meetup, and shifting from AI skepticism to regular usage of tools like Codex and ChatGPT for code review and debugging. Personal highlights include moving back to Austin, watching his daughter grow, reading extensively (especially Chinese history), and maintaining work-life balance through exercise and cooking.
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