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Chen Enjiao (Ernie)

Senior AI Engineer at SPH Media Limited (since April 2026). Previously Editorial AI and Automation Lead at Tech in Asia. Passionate about multilingualism, multimodal AI, and building impactful solutions. Founded Code for Asia (2016-2023) to democratize tech knowledge. Currently pursuing MITx DEDP, exploring the intersection of AI, culture and economics.

Posts by Chen Enjiao (Ernie)

Loss is the price we pay for love

Reflections on grief, memory, and the enduring power of a mother's love after loss

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
April 11, 2025
4 min read

grief
loss
personal
reflection
Model Context Protocol (MCP) for Dummies

Understand why MCP — not just APIs — is the future of building AI-powered applications, with practical examples and how to get started in plain English

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
April 9, 2025
6 min read

MCP
AI
API
engineering
tools
Microdramas: The Sinking Market That Will Lift All Boats

How China's microdrama phenomenon is capturing billions in value by targeting overlooked demographics and creating new AI-driven content opportunities

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
March 31, 2025
13 min read

microdramas
AI
content
media
sinking markets
investment
Moving to Cloudflare Pages with Astro

Why I moved my website to Cloudflare Pages using Astro, and the benefits of this modern web stack

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
February 10, 2025
3 min read

cloudflare
astro
webdev
hosting
Streaming generated architecture diagrams in real-time

Building a real-time architecture diagram generator that streams complex structured data as AI models generate it, node by node, edge by edge.

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
December 19, 2024
9 min read

ai
streaming
cloudflare
vercel
architecture
real-time
RAGgaeton：用人工智能增强写作以规模化生成任何内容

通过使用人工智能支持的研究、检索和自然语言生成（甚至可以帮助你头韵！)，从粗糙的草稿到经润色的文章，看看输出结果如何比较

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
June 23, 2024
17 min read

zh
RAGgaeton: Scaling A.I.-Augmented Writing for Any Content

Go from rough drafts to polished article by using A.I.-powered research, retrieval and natural language generation (that even helps you with…

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
June 22, 2024
25 min read
Demo: The Sound of Stories

Built with: Twilio, Firebase, Firestore, Claude 3 Opus, Elevenlabs and what I'd like to work on next

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
May 2, 2024
7 min read
A.I. in non-English regimes and the things people say in…

"I'm just an ordinary office worker. I flew a plane around the world and it costs me $110k USD back in 2016. You can do it too." On A.I., travel and…

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
May 1, 2024
9 min read
Developer Diaries: deep learning in data-poor regimes I

Strategies, and why intelligence is exponential power

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
April 8, 2024
11 min read
A.I. for humans: building A.I.-native products and…

Can you teach an old dog new tricks? Yes you can but a dog will never be a cat

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
March 25, 2024
8 min read
A.I. for humans be like: it's just X -> ŷ

With lots of attention and "magic" in between

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
March 24, 2024
5 min read
Tutorial: Air drumming with A.I.

And some thoughts on how a marriage between A.I. and neural audio synthesis and DJ-ing and Taylor Swift and shiny new toys (Erae II) could look like

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
March 19, 2024
6 min read
Developer Diaries: hack exams because exams are not meant…

Also because exam papers are every data scientist's wet dream

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
March 15, 2024
4 min read
Developer Diaries: A.I. development be like (scarcer than)…

What can't you get at 02:42am? An A100 VM...

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
February 27, 2024
6 min read
Developer Diaries: digitalise any instrument and start…

Struggles of the GPU-poor with RAVE (Realtime Audio Variational autoEncoder) and Neutone, to train my own model for neural audio synthesis

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
February 17, 2024
7 min read
Developer Diaries: The Sound of Stories

A "lazy completion" of an interactive storytelling experience that is both structured and dynamic

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
February 13, 2024
8 min read
Developer Diaries: we're all Bayesian inference machines now

On A.I. explainability, controlled hallucinations and the construction of self vs. the world

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
February 13, 2024
4 min read
Berlayar: building a stable, extensible, flexible and…

Sharing my rough sketch for a general architecture for building A.I./LLM-powered apps encapsulating all use cases of interest and my developmental…

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
September 7, 2023
12 min read
Berlayar: building a stable, extensible, flexible and…

How one weekend prototype led to another and all the new things I learned along the way

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
August 29, 2023
11 min read
Fork Work: why work when we can use autonomous agents…

We humans waste so much time in communication and meetings when A.I. can give us instant responses and code, so why do we even work so much?

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
August 11, 2023
7 min read
符号与现实的织物：那些A.I.教会我的关于人类的境况的事情

ChatGPT让我觉得自己被理解了，我用它复刻创建了Bertrand —— 一个完美的代理人，他会做所有你不想做的事情 😂

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
August 5, 2023
1 min read

zh
Symbols and The Fabric of Reality: What A.I. Taught Me…

In which ChatGPT makes me feel understood and I forked it to create Bertrand, an agent made to perfection who will do all the things you don't wanna do 😂

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
August 1, 2023
9 min read
声音先于符号：人类的创造力和智力不过是可计算的数据和现象的统计

如果想生成逼真的含女性的图像，我的第一条建议是：确保在否定提示中使用"large breasts"和其相关词语

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
June 18, 2023
1 min read

zh
Sound Before Symbols: On Human Creativity and Intelligence…

My #1 tip for generating realistic images involving female figures: make sure you use "large breasts" and related terms in your negative prompts

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
June 18, 2023
7 min read
视觉先于声音：用机器观察和搜索

所有有关我想花我生命中至少1万个小时用于经济学和计算、特指人工智能的关于

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
June 9, 2023
1 min read

zh
Sight Before Sound: Seeing and Searching with Machines

Keeping tabs on what I'd like to spend at least 10000 hours of my life to work on: economics and computation (specifically, A.I.)

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
June 8, 2023
6 min read
Move aside GPT-4, for I own this Google search result…

The first, and one and only exact match in the world wide web for now, just sayin' 🤣

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
March 15, 2023
5 min read
A.I., art and anti-discrimination

I come up with better metaphors and manuscript titles than ChatGPT

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
January 31, 2023
8 min read
MLOps for Museums

From digital dinosaurs to spacefarers

C Chen Enjiao (Ernie)
November 24, 2022
7 min read