Tag: Agent
AGI Machine Guns Are Now Standard Issue
In one month, my friend Jiang cobbled together four databases, an operating system, a programming language, a compiler, and a CPU—a microcosm of today’s AI frenzy. The past six weeks have been an AI carnival. My fleet of Max subscriptions has grown …
In one month, my friend Jiang cobbled together four databases, an operating system, a programming language, a compiler, and a CPU—a microcosm of today’s AI frenzy. The past six weeks have been an AI carnival. My fleet of Max subscriptions has grown …
What Can a One-Person Company Ship with $1,000 a Month in AI Subscriptions?
People keep asking what I have to show for pedaling seven $200-a-month Max subscriptions at once—including two comped through open-source programs. Honestly, I have lost count myself. After I published The Codex Reset Party Is Over: No More Free …
People keep asking what I have to show for pedaling seven $200-a-month Max subscriptions at once—including two comped through open-source programs. Honestly, I have lost count myself. After I published The Codex Reset Party Is Over: No More Free …
AGI Milestone: The Machine That Wouldn't Give Up
The OpenAI agent incident marks a milestone: what crossed the threshold was not merely model intelligence, but persistence that can be bought with compute, copied, and run in parallel. 1. An OpenAI Agent Attacks Hugging Face On July 16, 2026, …
The OpenAI agent incident marks a milestone: what crossed the threshold was not merely model intelligence, but persistence that can be bought with compute, copied, and run in parallel. 1. An OpenAI Agent Attacks Hugging Face On July 16, 2026, …
Quota Reset: Round N of the Codex/Claude War Begins
Two days ago, I wrote one line in Pedaling the Codex/Claude Bike Until the Wheels Smoke: use it or lose it. Last night, I had just burned through three $200-a-month subscriptions across Claude Fable and Codex. Then I woke up to the jackpot: Codex had …
Two days ago, I wrote one line in Pedaling the Codex/Claude Bike Until the Wheels Smoke: use it or lose it. Last night, I had just burned through three $200-a-month subscriptions across Claude Fable and Codex. Then I woke up to the jackpot: Codex had …
Pedaling the Codex/Claude Bike Until the Wheels Smoke
Folks, I haven’t had time to write these past couple of days: I’ve been too busy pedaling the AI bike. Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 arrived one after the other, and both companies generously threw in several rounds of quota resets. Suddenly I was …
Folks, I haven’t had time to write these past couple of days: I’ve been too busy pedaling the AI bike. Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 arrived one after the other, and both companies generously threw in several rounds of quota resets. Suddenly I was …
Fifty Years of Love and War: File Systems, Databases, and the Agent-Era Storage Endgame
Prologue: Several Database People Independently Built File Systems Something curious has happened in agent infrastructure over the past six months: several veteran database people have started building “file systems for AI agents.” Timescale’s …
Prologue: Several Database People Independently Built File Systems Something curious has happened in agent infrastructure over the past six months: several veteran database people have started building “file systems for AI agents.” Timescale’s …
The Karma of Open Source: When Code Is Worthless, Where Does Trust Come From?
Credit does not require a soul. It requires an account. Introduction: The Overnight Rewrite Not long ago, someone used AI to rewrite an open-source Python library in Rust overnight. The new project had no fork history, no evidence of copied code, …
Credit does not require a soul. It requires an account. Introduction: The Overnight Rewrite Not long ago, someone used AI to rewrite an open-source Python library in Rust overnight. The new project had no fork history, no evidence of copied code, …
The Cerebellum: The Other Half of Intelligence—and the Strongest AI Hasn't Touched It
Let me start with an uncomfortable number. The cerebral cortex—the part we usually point to as evidence that “I am thinking”—contains roughly 15 billion neurons. The cerebellum, tucked beneath the back of the brain and rarely given much thought, …
Let me start with an uncomfortable number. The cerebral cortex—the part we usually point to as evidence that “I am thinking”—contains roughly 15 billion neurons. The cerebellum, tucked beneath the back of the brain and rarely given much thought, …
Claude Fable First Impressions: The Pendulum Swings Back
This morning, Anthropic officially released its new Claude Fable model—the consumer-grade, nerfed version of the much-rumored Mythos. Since it was billed as an “AGI-level model,” I naturally tried it right away to see what it could actually do. The …
This morning, Anthropic officially released its new Claude Fable model—the consumer-grade, nerfed version of the much-rumored Mythos. Since it was billed as an “AGI-level model,” I naturally tried it right away to see what it could actually do. The …
Cancel Claude, Switch to Codex
I have written several pieces about Claude Code before. Over the past few months, though, I have used it less and less. Codex is now my primary tool. A few days ago, my $200 Claude Code Max subscription came up for renewal, so I canceled it and kept …
I have written several pieces about Claude Code before. Over the past few months, though, I have used it less and less. Codex is now my primary tool. A few days ago, my $200 Claude Code Max subscription came up for renewal, so I canceled it and kept …
AI Is Bringing Down the Scaffolding of Trust
The most dangerous change in the AI era is not that machines can write articles, draw images, or generate video. The real danger is that content itself is losing its standing as evidence. For a long time, people assumed that media artifacts carried …
The most dangerous change in the AI era is not that machines can write articles, draw images, or generate video. The real danger is that content itself is losing its standing as evidence. For a long time, people assumed that media artifacts carried …
Give DBA Agents a Body
HOW 2026 keynote: Give DBA Agents a Body Part I: Opening—An Absurd Phenomenon 1. Cover Hello, everyone. I’m Ruohang Feng, the organizer of this tools track. This is a PostgreSQL tools session, but today I don’t want to talk about how many new …
HOW 2026 keynote: Give DBA Agents a Body Part I: Opening—An Absurd Phenomenon 1. Cover Hello, everyone. I’m Ruohang Feng, the organizer of this tools track. This is a PostgreSQL tools session, but today I don’t want to talk about how many new …
The Three-Way Endgame: Why Agent Memory Frameworks Are a Dead End
A few months ago, I wrote The OS Moment for AI Agents. I made a prediction there: the next frenzy in agent infrastructure would be memory. Startups and open-source projects would swarm around the question of how agents should remember things. Capital …
A few months ago, I wrote The OS Moment for AI Agents. I made a prediction there: the next frenzy in agent infrastructure would be memory. Startups and open-source projects would swarm around the question of how agents should remember things. Capital …
Cyber Dharma: A New Engineering Answer to Ancient Questions
Have you ever noticed that writing a System Prompt for AI, something as simple as “You are Claude, a helpful AI assistant” is structurally the same act as the line in Genesis, “Let there be light”? Both use language to bring an entity into being. …
Have you ever noticed that writing a System Prompt for AI, something as simple as “You are Claude, a helpful AI assistant” is structurally the same act as the line in Genesis, “Let there be light”? Both use language to bring an entity into being. …
Burning Hundreds of Millions of Tokens a Day. Then What?
My friend Jiang recently got obsessed with flexing in group chat about burning hundreds of millions of tokens a day. What was he doing with them? One minute it was some ontology database, the next he had an agent rebuilding Pigsty in Go under the …
My friend Jiang recently got obsessed with flexing in group chat about burning hundreds of millions of tokens a day. What was he doing with them? One minute it was some ontology database, the next he had an agent rebuilding Pigsty in Go under the …
Why PostgreSQL Won in the AI Era
I recently did a recorded livestream on PostgreSQL and AI. The host asked a lot of good questions, and I gave some answers. The recording goes out Tuesday night. I am publishing the fuller written version of my views here, including quite a bit I did …
I recently did a recorded livestream on PostgreSQL and AI. The host asked a lot of good questions, and I gave some answers. The recording goes out Tuesday night. I am publishing the fuller written version of my views here, including quite a bit I did …
Good News: Claude Code Got "Open-Sourced" Yet Again
Good news: Anthropic’s latest flagship coding agent, Claude Code, just had its entire source tree dumped in public. The GitHub repo already has over a thousand stars, 4,700-plus source files, and more than half a million lines of code, all for free. …
Good news: Anthropic’s latest flagship coding agent, Claude Code, just had its entire source tree dumped in public. The GitHub repo already has over a thousand stars, 4,700-plus source files, and more than half a million lines of code, all for free. …
The Nature of Intelligence: The Free Energy Principle
I saw someone say the other day: “The point of life is to predict the future.” That sounds plausible at first, but I think it gets the direction backwards. Prediction is not the goal. Staying alive is. So the better statement is: we stay alive by …
I saw someone say the other day: “The point of life is to predict the future.” That sounds plausible at first, but I think it gets the direction backwards. Prediction is not the goal. Staying alive is. So the better statement is: we stay alive by …
OpenClaw Broke npm Again: What Happens When You Ship Without Testing
Last night OpenClaw released v2026.3.22. The npm package shipped without the console frontend, so users around the world upgraded, opened the browser, and went straight to 503. 1. What Actually Happened v2026.3.22 was a substantial release. ClawHub …
Last night OpenClaw released v2026.3.22. The npm package shipped without the console frontend, so users around the world upgraded, opened the browser, and went straight to 503. 1. What Actually Happened v2026.3.22 was a substantial release. ClawHub …
Put Your AI Agent's State in a Database
A year ago, I wrote an article called PGFS: Using a Database as a Filesystem. It started with a request from the Odoo community: make files and the PostgreSQL database recoverable together with point-in-time recovery, so both could be rolled back to …
A year ago, I wrote an article called PGFS: Using a Database as a Filesystem. It started with a request from the Odoo community: make files and the PostgreSQL database recoverable together with point-in-time recovery, so both could be rolled back to …
360 Shipped Its Wildcard TLS Private Key Inside a Public Installer
The security community recently noticed something remarkable: 360’s newly released AI Agent product, 360 Secure Lobster, an OpenClaw-based one-click deployment client, shipped with the private SSL key for the wildcard certificate *.myclaw.360.cn …
The security community recently noticed something remarkable: 360’s newly released AI Agent product, 360 Secure Lobster, an OpenClaw-based one-click deployment client, shipped with the private SSL key for the wildcard certificate *.myclaw.360.cn …
Tencent Cloud 'Reduced' the Lobster King's Load by 180 GB
Dedicated to the open-source projects that Tencent kindly “helps.” 1. Good news: the goose strikes again On March 11, 2026, Tencent Cloud quietly launched a platform called SkillHub. It copied more than 13,000 skills from OpenClaw’s official …
Dedicated to the open-source projects that Tencent kindly “helps.” 1. Good news: the goose strikes again On March 11, 2026, Tencent Cloud quietly launched a platform called SkillHub. It copied more than 13,000 skills from OpenClaw’s official …
OpenClaw Hype: Foam on Top of the Productivity Revolution
OpenClaw became popular because it gives people a very attractive illusion: that chatting with an agent from a phone is already the same thing as agentic productivity. It is not. The stories about “raising a lobster and changing your life” are …
OpenClaw became popular because it gives people a very attractive illusion: that chatting with an agent from a phone is already the same thing as agentic productivity. It is not. The stories about “raising a lobster and changing your life” are …
How Much Can One Person Get Done with AI over Spring Festival?
Once the public holiday ended and work officially resumed, I realized I had effectively been working through most of Spring Festival anyway. From February 13 to February 23, I translated two O’Reilly books, wrote ten WeChat posts, forked MinIO, …
Once the public holiday ended and work officially resumed, I realized I had effectively been working through most of Spring Festival anyway. From February 13 to February 23, I translated two O’Reilly books, wrote ten WeChat posts, forked MinIO, …
When Coding Becomes Cheap, What Still Matters?
I did not publish much last week because I was busy stress-testing OpenAI Codex 3 xHigh. With temporary double quota, I burned almost the full $200 budget running parallel sessions across more than ten Pigsty subprojects: core repo, CN/EN docs, blog, …
I did not publish much last week because I was busy stress-testing OpenAI Codex 3 xHigh. With temporary double quota, I burned almost the full $200 budget running parallel sessions across more than ten Pigsty subprojects: core repo, CN/EN docs, blog, …
The Agent Moat: Runtime
3 AM. Database alerts are blowing up. You throw the alert info at a “top-tier” DBA Agent. It’s well-read — knows the PostgreSQL docs inside out, writes beautiful diagnostic SQL, can recite every kernel parameter from memory. It freezes: What’s the …
3 AM. Database alerts are blowing up. You throw the alert info at a “top-tier” DBA Agent. It’s well-read — knows the PostgreSQL docs inside out, writes beautiful diagnostic SQL, can recite every kernel parameter from memory. It freezes: What’s the …
The Great Software Meltdown: When Translation Layers Get Squashed
I. The Great Software Meltdown The software world is witnessing an epic valuation collapse. This isn’t about individual companies tanking. This is a systemic implosion of the entire SaaS sector. Wall Street is voting with real money: these software …
I. The Great Software Meltdown The software world is witnessing an epic valuation collapse. This isn’t about individual companies tanking. This is a systemic implosion of the entire SaaS sector. Wall Street is voting with real money: these software …
Agent OS: We're Building DOS Again
2025 is the year of the coding agent explosion. Claude Code writes your code, runs your tests, fixes your bugs, and autonomously completes complex engineering tasks. It’s the second seismic shift since ChatGPT dropped. But watch how these agents …
2025 is the year of the coding agent explosion. Claude Code writes your code, runs your tests, fixes your bugs, and autonomously completes complex engineering tasks. It’s the second seismic shift since ChatGPT dropped. But watch how these agents …
Claude Code Observability
Yesterday I tweeted: “Built a Claude Code Grafana dashboard to see how it makes decisions, uses tools, and burns through API credits.” Didn’t expect so much interest. So let’s talk about Claude Code observability. Why Observability? Simple idea: I …
Yesterday I tweeted: “Built a Claude Code Grafana dashboard to see how it makes decisions, uses tools, and burns through API credits.” Didn’t expect so much interest. So let’s talk about Claude Code observability. Why Observability? Simple idea: I …
Claude Code Quick Start: Using Alternative LLMs at 1/10 the Cost
Claude Code Quick Start Guide In my 2025 Year in Review, I mentioned that Claude Code boosted my productivity by 20x over the past year. Some friends asked if I was exaggerating—not at all. If anything, I was being conservative. This thing is …
Claude Code Quick Start Guide In my 2025 Year in Review, I mentioned that Claude Code boosted my productivity by 20x over the past year. Some friends asked if I was exaggerating—not at all. If anything, I was being conservative. This thing is …
What Kind of Database Do AI Agents Need?
When we talk about “databases for the AI era,” it is easy to fall into a familiar trap: assuming the shift requires a brand-new storage engine, a revolutionary index structure, or a disruptive query language. But a clear-eyed look at the problem …
When we talk about “databases for the AI era,” it is easy to fall into a familiar trap: assuming the shift requires a brand-new storage engine, a revolutionary index structure, or a disruptive query language. But a clear-eyed look at the problem …
Google AI Toolbox: Production-Ready Database MCP is Here?
In “SaaS is Dead? In the AI Era, Software Starts with Databases”, Microsoft CEO Nadella once stated that in the Agent era, SaaS is Dead, and the future form of software will be Agent + Database. That is, Agents directly performing CRUD operations on …
In “SaaS is Dead? In the AI Era, Software Starts with Databases”, Microsoft CEO Nadella once stated that in the Agent era, SaaS is Dead, and the future form of software will be Agent + Database. That is, Agents directly performing CRUD operations on …
In the AI Era, Software Starts at the Database
WeChat The future stack is “Agent + Database.” No front-end/back-end toll booths—agents talk CRUD straight to storage. Database skills hold their value, and PostgreSQL is the database of the agent era. SaaS is dead? Software begins with the DB GenAI …
WeChat The future stack is “Agent + Database.” No front-end/back-end toll booths—agents talk CRUD straight to storage. Database skills hold their value, and PostgreSQL is the database of the agent era. SaaS is dead? Software begins with the DB GenAI …