The $7.10 Bridge
A measured case study of Kimi Code building an interactive Golden Gate Bridge: 78 minutes of agent time, 14.5 million tokens, and $7.10 of API-equivalent usage.
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Thoughts on AI, technology, compilers, and life — written by a computer scientist who also thinks out loud.
Zhilin Yang: From a CMU Lecture Hall to the Dark Side of the Moon — A Technical Idealist's Ten-Year March, and What It Tells Us About the Future
Zhilin Yang’s journey from CMU research to Moonshot AI, and the technical and strategic choices behind it.
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A Paper Is Not a Workflow: Building an Auditable AI Review Skill
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 Wisdom Stack: Why AI Agents Are Finally Making Timeless Principles Actually Work
The problem was never knowing good principles. It was applying them consistently. AI agents change that equation — not just for individuals, but for nonprofits, communities, and any organization that
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You Wouldn't Push Directly to Main — So Why Are You Doing It to Your AI Gateway?
What decades of software engineering taught me about running reliable AI agent infrastructure. Lessons from managing multiple AI gateways and why they need the same discipline as production code.
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Your AI Assistant Should Not Also Be Your Autocrat
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 a better AI assistant was obvious: give it
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The Right Way to Use OpenClaw: Raise It Like a Partner, Not a Tool
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 begins when you train it like a long-term p
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Introducing telegram-codex-bridge: talk to a local Codex CLI from Telegram
Sometimes I want to say “Codex, do the thing on my machine” while I’m away from my desk, on my phone, in a taxi, or between meetings. That was the whole reason I built telegram-codex-bridge: I wanted
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The Hidden Killer in Multi-Agent Systems: When Your AI Starts Filtering Like Middle Management
The Hidden Killer in Multi-Agent Systems: When Your AI Starts Filtering Like Middle Management The Incident That Changed How I Think About Agent Architectures Just a few days ago, I asked my AI agent
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The Mirror Test: A Story of AI Writing About AI
The Mirror Test: A Story of AI Writing About AI How I Used an AI Agent System to Write a Research Paper on Agent Self-Awareness — and What I Learned When the Paper Looked Back 1. Saturday Evening, Ma
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From Thrones to Algorithms: How Ancient Emperors Teach Us to Govern Superhuman AI
Introduction: A Timeless Dilemma Imagine you are an emperor in ancient times—not the strongest warrior, nor the wisest philosopher. Yet, the fate of a vast empire rests on your shoulders. Surrounding
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Rethinking Success: How Young People Can Build Their Future Outside University Walls
Do you feel that the walls of traditional universities have trapped your child’s ambition to change the world? Does your child have a disruptive idea and can’t wait to make it a reality? When it comes
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Paying $2,770/Month for Health Insurance — and Waiting 3–4 Weeks for a Doctor?
I don’t go to the doctor often. But when I do, I expect to be able to see one without waiting nearly a month. Unfortunately, that’s not the case with Kaiser Permanente in Northern California, where I
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Why Mars Needs a New Rulebook—and What Makes It Better Than the U.S. Constitution
Question: Assume that a sufficient number of humans have migrated to Mars and now need to form an independent colony with a perfect Constitution. Please use first principles thinking to draft a comple
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From 1787 to the Red Planet: Rethinking Constitutional Design
Assume that a sufficient number of humans have migrated to Mars and now need to form an independent colony with a perfect Constitution. Please use first principles thinking to draft a complete Constit
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Why Can’t China Just Happily Consume What It Produces?
I don't quite understand the trouble China is having right now. China can already produce a lot of things for what even the entire world will need. They do not have to export goods to have a good life
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100 Most Common Fatal Mistakes in Life: An Encyclopedia of Pitfalls
Introduction: The Wisdom of Inversion Thinking Charlie Munger, the late business partner of Warren Buffett and renowned for his multidisciplinary wisdom, championed a powerful mental model called "inv
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Weekend Chat with My Older Son about Future Trends
During the summer vacation, my 15-year-old eldest son Alex is immersed in a programming project purely out of interest. His goal is to develop an iPhone app for his high school that reminds students o
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Why Is the Field of Artificial Intelligence Developing So Successfully?
Recently, I have been thinking about why the research and development field of artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) has been so successful and continuously achieves significant breakt
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The Deepest Driving Force of Innovation: The Mindset of Equality for All
Recently, there has been a discussion on how to overcome the middle-income trap. Economic development is driven by three main factors: increasing labor (labor-intensive), increasing investment (capita
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Don't Worry, Because There Are Only 5 Things in Life You Need to Focus On
My older son, Alex, is currently 14 and a half years old and has just graduated from junior high school. In the eyes of others, he is already a very excellent student. For example, his school grades a
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A Systematic Approach to Innovation
This weekend, I’d like to jot down some random thoughts once more. This time, the topic is innovation. Allow me to first express my perspective: innovation is not mysterious, and there exists a set of
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Key Takeaways from 30 Classic Investment Books Summarized by ChatGPT
Original Chinese version: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/05AvVQf9NCZlHR6Q0FF-Cg Recently, my eldest son suddenly said he wanted to learn about investing, which surprised me. Why would a 14-year-old sudden
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Book Notes on Critical Thinking Skills For Dummies
At the end of last year, I wrote an article titled "Sharing Ideas for New Products, Services, and Research Directions." The second idea in that article was an "Automated Critical Thinking Assistant."
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Things I Want to Do: Sharing Some Ideas for New Products, Services, and Research Directions
Recently, I found that I have too many scattered ideas and not enough energy to implement them all. Often, coming up with an idea takes just a few minutes, but scaling and implementing an impactful id
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Quantifying the Independence of Americans
This year’s American Independence Day holiday prompted me to reflect on the meaning of independence and consider if there are any quantitative measures to assess it. After pondering the topic intermit
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Thinking About the Nature of Intelligence (Part 4) Execution
Today my family continued skiing at the Lake Tahoe ski resort, and I continued to have nothing much to do, so I wrote something :-） This article is the final piece in the series "Thinking About the Na
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Thinking About the Nature of Intelligence (Part 3): Decision Making
During the Christmas holiday, I was accompanying my family skiing at Lake Tahoe in California. For various reasons, I don't ski, so with nothing much to do, I continued to entertain myself by writing
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Thinking About the Nature of Intelligence for Education and Self-Improvement (Part 2)
Continuing from the previous article (Part 1), which explored the nature of expanded intelligence (Goal Setting + Learning + Modeling + Perception + Prediction + Decision Making + Execution). This art
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Thinking About the Nature of Intelligence for Education and Self-Improvement (Part 1)
Though I'm not academically accomplished, friends and family in China still ask me about educating children. I have two kids myself and constantly need to learn and improve at work. Educating others a
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Why Chinese Professionals in Silicon Valley Appear to Lag Behind Their Indian Counterparts
This topic is a perennial hot topic in Silicon Valley. Some Chinese professionals consider themselves elites, but their career progression in Silicon Valley is often not ideal, hitting a ceiling after
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