Writing
Thoughts on AI, technology, compilers, and life — written by a computer scientist who also thinks out loud.
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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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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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 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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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