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HE TAUGHT THE MACHINES TO CODE

By Zimbo · October 6, 2026

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AI cartoon by Zimbo: Six-panel Binyuan Hui strip: 2021 text-to-SQL 'SELECT * FROM everything'; 2022 YUNFAN award; 2023 juggling an Alibaba Qwen box and a BigCode open-weights chest; 2024 releasing OpenDevin robot coders with a 2.5-CODER sign; 2025 buried in an ICLR x5 paper avalanche; kicker: robots writing his papers.
Binyuan Hui: text-to-SQL researcher, 2022 WAIC YunFan award, Alibaba's Qwen foundation-model team, BigCode's open-weights crew, OpenDevin initiator, Qwen2.5-Coder technical lead, five ICLR papers. He taught the machines to code. Now they're writing his papers. In six panels.Zimbo for AI News Page
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