Benson Zheng

Benson Zheng

cs @ northeastern · ai engineer

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TerrarAI

AI-powered agentic NPC mod for Terraria — 1st Place at HackPrinceton '25 xAI Track, winning $8K in xAI credits out of 800+ participants

C#xAItModLoaderGrok

Simulacra

Economic policy simulation with 25 AI agents in a pixel-art city — 1st Place at YHacks '26 K2 Think V2 Track

Simulacra
Next.jsTypeScriptPythonFastAPI

ChatPT

AI physiotherapist on a 3D anatomical model — click where it hurts, describe symptoms, and receive clinical assessments with personalized rehab plans

ChatPT
Next.jsReactTypeScriptFastAPI

RainShift

Web-based save editor for Risk of Rain 2 — unlock achievements, modify lunar coins, and more

Next.jsTypeScriptTailwind CSS
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More Skills, Worse Agents? Skill Shadowing Degrades Performance When Expanding Skill Libraries

Song Wei · arxiv.org

Sep 2026

Agents do up to 21% worse as skill libraries grow. The cause is picking the wrong skill (skill shadowing), not the extra context.

The Future is for Everyone

Mark Zuckerberg · meta.com

Sep 2026

A vision for building personal superintelligence around individual empowerment, invention, and a balance of power.

How to Design an Animation

Sunhyoup Lee · kciter.so

Sep 2026

Treats motion as a graph. Breaks complex animation into simple state changes built from easing curves, springs, and trig, then shows how to compose them.

Training AI to Paint with Code

Surya · surya.website

Aug 2026

RL (GRPO) on Qwen to write p5.brush code that renders watercolours. A nice look at designing rewards for subjective, creative tasks.

I want to do everything, so I do nothing

Luisa · luisaallovertheplace.substack.com

Mar 2026

On being paralyzed by too many interests, and letting yourself be a beginner at one thing at a time.