The CS course I hated the most was Compilers 😅 Parsing, syntax trees, optimizations… it felt like pain. But later I realized something: compilers aren’t just theory, they’re a security boundary. They turn your code into what the CPU actually runs, and they can either help protect your program (hardening, warnings, safer output) or expose weaknesses if you don’t understand what’s happening under the hood. If you want to build secure software, you can’t stop at writing code…you have to understand

From Surface to Semantics: Semantic Structure Parsing for Table-Centric Document Analysis