aiia

building AI that understands taste & beauty — maybe people. founder of AestheticIntelligence Circle & RoomX 🌸 software engineer (AI Infra) @Amazon

[aiia @AiiaBuilds]

from pink envelopes → AI ☁️
a small story about learning to build, one step at a time.

hi, i’m aiia 🌸
building at the intersection of AI, fashion & aesthetics.

2018 — my parents hoped I’d stay home and teach,
but I moved to the US alone.
no network. barely spoke English.
cried quietly in grocery stores, trying to belong.

2020 — during covid, couldn’t go home for years.
joined a small startup that sponsored my H-1B, learned how to build from zero.

2021 — started a tiny jewelry brand on the side.
packed every order by hand — one pink envelope at a time.

2022 — taught myself to code, debugged at 2am, and somehow got into tech.
2023 — sent out hundreds of applications.
got rejected, ghosted, ignored — almost gave up.

but I kept building, hoping something would click.
2024 — joined Amazon to work on AI infra.

today — building again, this time with AI.
still figuring things out, but grateful I never stopped ☁️

from pearls → code — still learning what beauty means,
in design, in people, in how things are built. ✨

not a success story yet — just a story in progress 🤍
if you’re also building through uncertainty, I’d love to hear your story.

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most AI events feel either like a lecture
or a networking performance.

i didn’t feel like hosting another one of those.

this thursday i’m hosting a very small AI × creative gathering at gallery house.
no stage, no pitching, no pretending to have answers.

if you’re building (or stuck) and just want a quiet room to think out loud,
you’re welcome.

link ↓
https://t.co/Uz0gDLXZUg

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@tszzl Agency is the boring part of courage.
The part that shows up every day.

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@gregisenberg Most “overnight successes” are just neglected side projects that survived long enough.

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@neiltyson With that workload, he’s already on a cardio plan.

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@AmandaAskell As someone who switched into tech,
I don’t feel the work itself is harder.

The bigger difference is pressure and deadlines,
not intelligence.

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@OpenAI I don’t think AI is ahead of humans yet.

It’s great at following intent,
but still weak at forming taste.

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This is unexpectedly cute.

Cloud diagrams, side projects,
and somehow a silk dress all in one frame.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Your Year with ChatGPT!

Now rolling out to everyone in the US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia who have reference saved memory and reference chat history turned on.

Just make sure your app is updated.

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@gregisenberg AI writes the code.
You own the bugs.

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@immasiddx Google is for when I know what I’m doing.
ChatGPT is for… most of the time.

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@DavidSacks AI automates cognition first, labor last.

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@ai_for_success king of taste.

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Surfing taught me something today:

Riding the wave is easy.
Seeing it early is the real skill.

Same with building products.

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@BlasianHokage @OpenAI Haha appreciate it, I’ll open my DMs soon.
Always down to chat with other AI builders 😄

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@malikatifsaleem @OpenAI Fashion is always 10× harder than people think 😂
Let’s see who ships faster.

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@ohhanxiety Asian mom raised me on ginger water and fear.

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@signulll AI eats the “must-do” jobs.
People keep the “want-to-do” ones.

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Found my vacation role model.

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@sundayrobotics Amazing. Now train it to fold fitted sheets and I’ll call it AGI.

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@yacineMTB Grateful for my washing machine too. It carries the team.