Beyond the Code — Miyang Tech

THE GOOD PART · Joy you can hold

Joy, around here,
usually has a concrete shape.

A cup of coffee, a camp cot, a round of games, a Korean class, or a freezer about to overflow with ice cream. We think you have to be happy yourself before you can make anything that makes other people happy.

THE OFFICE · Today's window

Sunset over Caohejing, Xuhui

A DAY HERE · After standup

Get the problems on the table,
then go deep on your own

Standup is for progress, blockers, and anything that needs a hand. Then we write code, design, sort materials, run evals. AI is the default tool — tokens are basically uncapped.

Users and players passing through Shanghai often drop by to talk.

Game gear in the Miyang lounge — A PS5, a Switch 2, and a massage chair — that's the lounge.

Cake, fruit, and a row of drinks laid out on the desk — Cake, fruit, and drinks, lining up on the table first.

Miyang lounge panorama: yellow sofa, rug, and an illustration wall — Yellow sofa, rug, and a whole wall of drawings.

Playing on the lounge sofa with a controller — Controller POV. This round is in the lounge.

The sticky photo board at the Miyang office door — People who visit leave a photo on the door.

EVERYDAY SUPPORT · Daily charge

Work hard.
Remember to recharge

Some support is written into the rules. Some just sits within reach.

The snack table stays full

Snacks stay stocked; the coffee machine is right there

A nap kit for everyone

A weighted eye mask and a camp cot, one set each

Bilibili, all year

Annual premium membership, one for everyone

Korean class comes in

The teacher comes to the office

Shows you want, classes you want

The company covers tickets and course fees — then you tell the rest of us about it

Late dinner and the ride home

After 20:30, a 30-yuan dinner stipend; after 22:00, taxis are reimbursed

This list isn't finished. The boss notices how people feel, and slowly turns those feelings into everyday care.

TEAM APPETITE · Dinner, on record

At the office,
nobody's getting skinny

The boss heard each of us could eat 3 jin, so he actually ordered 27 jin of crayfish and ate them in 3 days. Ice cream packed the freezer. The lounge hosts dinners too. The snack shelf was restocked this week.

A table packed with crayfish and stir-fries, another dish stacked in the middle — Then they stacked one more plate. This table had a capacity upgrade.

So much ice cream the freezer won't close — A different kind of inventory problem: so much ice cream the freezer won't close.

Two plates of fish and a comedy show on the lounge table — Lounge night shift: two plates of fish, one episode of comedy, the coffee table working overtime.

Alice yummy-time photo frame and hotpot — Alice eats first.

Office snack restock shelf — Snack shelf restocked this week. Shipping is a separate ticket.

FIRST CLINK · Clink first

The glass can change.
The hands meet in the middle

Hotpot, wine glasses, cake — and juice back at the office. The drink can skip. The hands cannot.

Overhead of people raising glasses around a table — Wine, tea, and plain water, reporting to the center of the table.

Wine glasses clinking on a round table — Some nights the cups get swapped for wine glasses.

White porcelain cups clinking in a circle — A porcelain cup still counts. Clink anyway.

Raising a cake to clink at dinner — No wine? Cake will clink.

Different cups clinking on a wooden table — That round on the wood table had the messiest glassware.

Clinking with a whole bottle of juice in the office — Back at the office. This time it's a whole bottle of juice.

HOW WE WORK · AI NATIVE

Build the tech
into the product

We do algorithm research, engineering, and product design. We also write papers, write down methods, and build evals. Problems come from the product; results go back into the product.

We exhibited at the Bund Conference

GO BUILD IT · Just go

If you want to build it,
first show you can.If you can, go build it.

Users first

Real usage and real feedback set the product's priorities.

Tech as the craft

Keep working on algorithms, evals, and engineering — and publish the process and results on Miyang Lab.

Product-driven

Research starts from real product problems, then the findings go back into the product.

KEEP LEARNING · Read it first

Before you start building,
read the problem through

The academic habit stuck: research and theory first, then build. After a feature ships, we write the judgment and the process into something reusable. Courses you want to take — just talk to the boss.

OUR MEMES · Group-chat assets

Some lines grew up
to be stickers

The company has plenty of coworker stickers. The official site is a serious place, so we decided to sell out the boss first.

A cat on a desk with a ball in its mouth, captioned So?

A cat paw raised from the desk, captioned Hands up

A cat sprawled on the rug staring, captioned ah?

If I actually block you I won't sleep sticker

Someone in a white fursuit walking out of the lounge, captioned nothing else I'll bounce

Someone in a white fursuit editing at a desk, captioned office worker energy belike

Bai Aili pointing at Luo Xiaoshan, captioned you think you're smarter than my dad?

Pinching a Luo Xiaoshan badge, captioned playing with AI alone is too dangerous take this

Someone in a white fursuit throwing a peace sign in the lounge, captioned you scared me

MANGO · Permanent resident

Mango. Spawns at random
around the office

Mango is a Li Hua tabby the boss rescued, with a little orange-cat in her. When we found her, her right front paw was already hurt. She later had a major surgery. She's an absurdly good cat: you can pet her, hold her, she never bites, and she barely sheds.