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I write about AI, life, and the messy future of humans working with machines.
By day I'm a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab building tools that help developers understand and optimize code. By night (and weekends) I write about AI agents, governance, intelligence, and anything else I can't stop thinking about.
Zhilin Yang’s journey from CMU research to Moonshot AI, and the technical and strategic choices behind it.
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An auditable AI review workflow turns a paper into an evidence trail, staged critique, and a human-owned final judgment.
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The problem was never knowing good principles. It was applying them consistently. AI agents change that equation — not just for individuals, but for nonprofi...
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What decades of software engineering taught me about running reliable AI agent infrastructure. Lessons from managing multiple AI gateways and why they need t...
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The smartest personal agent is often the most dangerous one, unless I split memory, execution, and approval into separate roles. I used to think the path to ...
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The Right Way to Use OpenClaw: Raise It Like a Partner, Not a Tool Most people underuse OpenClaw because they treat it like a smart utility; the real upside ...
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