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I am Peng Bin, a software engineering educator and university Principal Lecturer. Before moving into education, I spent more than 20 years in the software industry, working in technical and leadership roles across the public and private sectors.

I help university students and working professionals understand and apply modern software and AI engineering practices. I teach and write about software systems, DevOps, cloud computing, AI engineering, and developer tools. My goal is to make complex technology clear, practical, and useful.

Recent Writing

Why I Built Prism Skill: Making AI Explanations Clearer

AI

Teaching

Software Systems

Turning clear writing, diagrams, interaction, and animation into a reusable way to explain technical ideas.

Why a PhD Still Matters in the Age of AI

Research Notes

Academic Training

AI & Research

Phillip Isola’s case for why deep expertise and research training still matter as AI changes how research is done.

When Routing Rules Change: Jev vs Trained Classifiers

AI

Machine Learning

Enterprise AI

Software Engineering

Recently, I came across Jev, a model from TypeSafe. You give it a message and a list of options, and it picks one option and tells you how sure it is.

Why AI Coding Agents Need a Harness

AI Engineering

Software Engineering

AI Agents

Recently, I had a discussion with some software developers about AI coding agents: what does an agent need around the model before we can trust it to work on real software?