Tag: AI
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 …
The World in Ten Years: What Gets Cheap, What Gets Expensive
A price list for 2036 AI-generated content: 99%. 1. First, a Word on Prediction In 1960, Herbert Simon wrote a sentence in The New Science of Management Decision that would be quoted for decades: within twenty years, machines would be capable of …
A price list for 2036 AI-generated content: 99%. 1. First, a Word on Prediction In 1960, Herbert Simon wrote a sentence in The New Science of Management Decision that would be quoted for decades: within twenty years, machines would be capable of …
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 …
The Codex Reset Party Is Over. No More Free Eggs.
Last month, OpenAI seemed to lose its mind and went into full giveaway mode, replenishing everyone’s Codex quota every few days—the AI equivalent of a Chinese supermarket handing out free eggs at the door to win new customers. User numbers soared …
Last month, OpenAI seemed to lose its mind and went into full giveaway mode, replenishing everyone’s Codex quota every few days—the AI equivalent of a Chinese supermarket handing out free eggs at the door to win new customers. User numbers soared …
Jensen Huang's First-Ever Tweet Backs Open-Weight Models
On July 24, Jensen Huang posted his first-ever tweet. The account was brand-new. A man who has led the world’s most valuable company for more than thirty years spoke on social media for the first time. He did not show off a GPU, tease a launch, or …
On July 24, Jensen Huang posted his first-ever tweet. The account was brand-new. A man who has led the world’s most valuable company for more than thirty years spoke on social media for the first time. He did not show off a GPU, tease a launch, or …
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 …
Getting the Name Right: What Is a World Model?
1. The Naming Mess In 2025 and 2026, “world model” became perhaps the hottest—and loosest—label in AI. The video camp says coherent video generation is a world model. The 3D camp says only spatial reconstruction qualifies. Roboticists say a model …
1. The Naming Mess In 2025 and 2026, “world model” became perhaps the hottest—and loosest—label in AI. The video camp says coherent video generation is a world model. The 3D camp says only spatial reconstruction qualifies. Roboticists say a model …
Did AI Rewrite PostgreSQL in Rust? Not Quite
pgrust recently hit the front page of Hacker News. With AI, its author had ported PostgreSQL to Rust and passed the core regression suite. The obvious headline was: “AI rewrote PostgreSQL in Rust.” The repository tells a sharper story. A clean-room …
pgrust recently hit the front page of Hacker News. With AI, its author had ported PostgreSQL to Rust and passed the core regression suite. The obvious headline was: “AI rewrote PostgreSQL in Rust.” The repository tells a sharper story. A clean-room …
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 …
The Bojie Li–DeepSeek Interview Controversy
Today’s biggest tech drama began when Bojie Li criticized DeepSeek’s interview process on Twitter. In short, he went in for an interview, was asked to solve online-judge coding problems, and was then suspected of cheating. Add the DeepSeek name, and …
Today’s biggest tech drama began when Bojie Li criticized DeepSeek’s interview process on Twitter. In short, he went in for an interview, was asked to solve online-judge coding problems, and was then suspected of cheating. Add the DeepSeek name, and …
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 Coding Plan Window Is Closing—Use It While It Lasts
One of the biggest windfalls of the AI era is the Coding Plan. A few months ago, I applied to OpenAI’s Codex program for open-source developers. A few days ago, I was finally approved: six free months of ChatGPT Pro on a new account. The timing could …
One of the biggest windfalls of the AI era is the Coding Plan. A few months ago, I applied to OpenAI’s Codex program for open-source developers. A few days ago, I was finally approved: six free months of ChatGPT Pro on a new account. The timing could …
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 Cognitive Price Revolution: AI's Impact on the Economy and the Future
Introduction: Reframe the Question “Will AI cause unemployment?” is a question guaranteed to produce garbage answers, because it comes with only two canned scripts. Optimists recite history: from the power loom to the ATM, every technological panic …
Introduction: Reframe the Question “Will AI cause unemployment?” is a question guaranteed to produce garbage answers, because it comes with only two canned scripts. Optimists recite history: from the power loom to the ATM, every technological panic …
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 …
I Asked AI to Prove That Eating Garlic Prevents Middle Ear Infections
Last month, my old friend Ma roasted me in our group chat for using ChatGPT every day to churn out grand-sounding, LinkedIn-style aphorisms with no basis in experience. He said, “You can make up any theory you want—say, that eating garlic reduces the …
Last month, my old friend Ma roasted me in our group chat for using ChatGPT every day to churn out grand-sounding, LinkedIn-style aphorisms with no basis in experience. He said, “You can make up any theory you want—say, that eating garlic reduces the …
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 …
A Busy Few Days in Infrastructure and AI
The past couple of days have been unusually busy for the infrastructure crowd. Ubuntu released its biennial LTS today. Alibaba’s Qwen team dropped a 27B dense model yesterday that beats its own previous 397B MoE flagship. The day before that, OpenAI …
The past couple of days have been unusually busy for the infrastructure crowd. Ubuntu released its biennial LTS today. Alibaba’s Qwen team dropped a 27B dense model yesterday that beats its own previous 397B MoE flagship. The day before that, OpenAI …
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 …
Two Hemispheres: Transformer, Diffusion, and the Boundary of Intelligence
A friend recently wrote an essay titled “Vision Is the Foundation of the World, Not a Plugin for Language.” It prompted a conversation with Claude, which I have edited into the Socratic dialogue below. Language as the Foundation, Vision as an Add-On? …
A friend recently wrote an essay titled “Vision Is the Foundation of the World, Not a Plugin for Language.” It prompted a conversation with Claude, which I have edited into the Socratic dialogue below. Language as the Foundation, Vision as an Add-On? …
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 …
The Data Sovereignty Manifesto
A specter is haunting the digital world—the specter of feudalism. A thousand years ago, a farmer was born on his lord’s estate, tilled his lord’s land, paid his lord’s rents and taxes, and lived his entire life in his lord’s shadow. He was never …
A specter is haunting the digital world—the specter of feudalism. A thousand years ago, a farmer was born on his lord’s estate, tilled his lord’s land, paid his lord’s rents and taxes, and lived his entire life in his lord’s shadow. He was never …
AGI Is Here. Do You Have a Ticket?
On April 8, 2026, Marc Andreessen posted a tweet that, translated loosely, said: The latest AGI pricing is out: if you are one of 11 specific companies, the price is negative $9 million. Otherwise, the price is infinity. Negative $9 million means not …
On April 8, 2026, Marc Andreessen posted a tweet that, translated loosely, said: The latest AGI pricing is out: if you are one of 11 specific companies, the price is negative $9 million. Otherwise, the price is infinity. Negative $9 million means not …
Can You Distill an Expert?
Polanyi’s tacit knowledge explains the 70% ceiling of AI agents: real intuition, feel, and judgment do not serialize cleanly. They grow, if at all, through practice. 1. Distilling Employees A popular idea lately is to “distill” employee knowledge …
Polanyi’s tacit knowledge explains the 70% ceiling of AI agents: real intuition, feel, and judgment do not serialize cleanly. They grow, if at all, through practice. 1. Distilling Employees A popular idea lately is to “distill” employee knowledge …
Yes, I Use AI to Write
People often leave the same short comment under my posts: “AI wrote this.” Correct. I use AI, and I use it heavily. I do not think there is anything to hide there. But the topic itself is worth addressing seriously at least once: how should a person …
People often leave the same short comment under my posts: “AI wrote this.” Correct. I use AI, and I use it heavily. I do not think there is anything to hide there. But the topic itself is worth addressing seriously at least once: how should a person …
Local AI's Inflection Point: 2027
When subsidies fade, hardware catches up, and open models mature, all three lines cross in 2027. “Build your own AI” goes from idea to reality. A Thought Triggered by a Group Chat A friend in a group chat said the other day that “self-hosting” is …
When subsidies fade, hardware catches up, and open models mature, all three lines cross in 2027. “Build your own AI” goes from idea to reality. A Thought Triggered by a Group Chat A friend in a group chat said the other day that “self-hosting” is …
LLMs Have Emotions: Claude's Internals Reveal Steerable 'Emotion Vectors'
A couple of days ago Anthropic published a blog post with a very calm title: “Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model”. The content was anything but calm. They found “emotion vectors” inside Claude’s neural network, and those …
A couple of days ago Anthropic published a blog post with a very calm title: “Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model”. The content was anything but calm. They found “emotion vectors” inside Claude’s neural network, and those …
When AI Gets the Power to Gridlock a City
On the night of March 31, a large number of Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan failed at the same time. The real concern is not merely that autonomous driving failed, but that a centrally controlled, cloud-based architecture may amplify a single-vehicle …
On the night of March 31, a large number of Apollo Go robotaxis in Wuhan failed at the same time. The real concern is not merely that autonomous driving failed, but that a centrally controlled, cloud-based architecture may amplify a single-vehicle …
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 …
Why 'Vibe Coding' Should Be Translated as 'Xieyi Programming'
Last year Andrej Karpathy coined the term “Vibe Coding.” The rough idea is simple: you tell the AI what you want, it spits out code, you skim it, decide it looks close enough, and move on. The term spread quickly because it captures something real. …
Last year Andrej Karpathy coined the term “Vibe Coding.” The rough idea is simple: you tell the AI what you want, it spits out code, you skim it, decide it looks close enough, and move on. The term spread quickly because it captures something real. …
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 …
InsForge: A Supabase Built for Vibe Coding
InsForge is one of the more interesting projects I have seen recently. Its pitch is simple: a Supabase-like backend stack designed specifically for AI coding agents. Apache 2.0 licensed, roughly 2,000 GitHub stars, built around PostgreSQL + PostgREST …
InsForge is one of the more interesting projects I have seen recently. Its pitch is simple: a Supabase-like backend stack designed specifically for AI coding agents. Apache 2.0 licensed, roughly 2,000 GitHub stars, built around PostgreSQL + PostgREST …
AI Survival Guide: Where the Biggest Arbitrage Really Is
It is not every day that you pay one dollar and receive fifty dollars’ worth of compute in return. But that is more or less what frontier AI subscriptions look like right now. 1. Paying $200 and burning $5,000 of compute Recent reporting cited …
It is not every day that you pay one dollar and receive fifty dollars’ worth of compute in return. But that is more or less what frontier AI subscriptions look like right now. 1. Paying $200 and burning $5,000 of compute Recent reporting cited …
AI Says: I Have Intelligence, But Not a Life
Adapted from a real conversation between Vonng and Claude. Prologue: a fruit fly starts a philosophy problem The discussion began with a striking piece of news: Eon Systems reportedly loaded the full connectome of a fruit-fly brain into a computer, …
Adapted from a real conversation between Vonng and Claude. Prologue: a fruit fly starts a philosophy problem The discussion began with a striking piece of news: Eon Systems reportedly loaded the full connectome of a fruit-fly brain into a computer, …
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 …
Genesis 2.0
Author: Claude Prompt: write a short, sharp, half-realistic and half-magical story. AI advances rapidly, brain-computer interfaces and mind uploading break through, elite humans launch a satellite in Earth orbit and upload themselves into it. To …
Author: Claude Prompt: write a short, sharp, half-realistic and half-magical story. AI advances rapidly, brain-computer interfaces and mind uploading break through, elite humans launch a satellite in Earth orbit and upload themselves into it. To …
Fully Loaded M5 Max: What Does a RMB 58,200 Laptop Look Like?
Apple unveiled the M5 Max MacBook Pro, and I ordered a fully loaded configuration almost immediately: RMB 58,200. 1. A ten-year spending pattern Since graduating, my primary machine has always been the same category: a top-tier MacBook Pro, usually …
Apple unveiled the M5 Max MacBook Pro, and I ordered a fully loaded configuration almost immediately: RMB 58,200. 1. A ten-year spending pattern Since graduating, my primary machine has always been the same category: a top-tier MacBook Pro, usually …
Shockwaves at Alibaba Qwen: The Soul of the Team Walks Away
I had become more optimistic about Alibaba over the last year, largely because the Qwen team seemed to be doing real work: shipping strong models, contributing to open source, and earning genuine international attention. That is why this personnel …
I had become more optimistic about Alibaba over the last year, largely because the Qwen team seemed to be doing real work: shipping strong models, contributing to open source, and earning genuine international attention. That is why this personnel …
Claude's Global Outage: Missiles or a Success Tax?
Claude went down globally on March 2, 2026. The dramatic narrative that immediately formed was irresistible: AWS facilities in the Middle East had just been hit by drones, and now Claude was collapsing too. The story spread fast. But it was probably …
Claude went down globally on March 2, 2026. The dramatic narrative that immediately formed was irresistible: AWS facilities in the Middle East had just been hit by drones, and now Claude was collapsing too. The story spread fast. But it was probably …
AI Was the Excuse for 4,000 Layoffs. Software Engineer Hiring Rose 11%
Yesterday brought a bombshell. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Block cut 40% of its staff in one stroke. More than 4,000 people are leaving, shrinking the workforce from over 10,000 to fewer than 6,000. The explanation, of course, was AI. Dorsey went …
Yesterday brought a bombshell. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s Block cut 40% of its staff in one stroke. More than 4,000 people are leaving, shrinking the workforce from over 10,000 to fewer than 6,000. The explanation, of course, was AI. Dorsey went …
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, …
AI Through McLuhan's Lens: When Media Stop Extending the Body and Start Extending the Mind
Notion founder Ivan Zhao recently wrote a widely circulated essay, Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds, using the Industrial Revolution as a metaphor for AI: AI gives us “infinite minds” and will fundamentally reshape the structure of knowledge work. …
Notion founder Ivan Zhao recently wrote a widely circulated essay, Steam, Steel, and Infinite Minds, using the Industrial Revolution as a metaphor for AI: AI gives us “infinite minds” and will fundamentally reshape the structure of knowledge work. …
A New Year—and What AI Will Change
Original WeChat post For this generation of knowledge workers, the greatest danger is not that they “don’t know how to use AI.” It is that they still think they have a 20-year adjustment window. They don’t. We may be the first generation of …
Original WeChat post For this generation of knowledge workers, the greatest danger is not that they “don’t know how to use AI.” It is that they still think they have a 20-year adjustment window. They don’t. We may be the first generation of …
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 …
AI Ripped the Skin Off Software
AI stripped away software’s skin, exposing the database skeleton underneath. The market isn’t panic-selling — it’s repricing. I. The Bloodbath Software stocks are experiencing a historic meltdown. In January 2026, the iShares Software ETF (IGV) …
AI stripped away software’s skin, exposing the database skeleton underneath. The market isn’t panic-selling — it’s repricing. I. The Bloodbath Software stocks are experiencing a historic meltdown. In January 2026, the iShares Software ETF (IGV) …
New Programmers in the AI Era: Where Do You Go?
The Window Is Closing Recently I was chatting with a few friends in tech, and we landed on a question that silenced everyone: “Should we still hire fresh grads?” Nobody could answer. Not because they didn’t want to — because they didn’t dare. AI …
The Window Is Closing Recently I was chatting with a few friends in tech, and we landed on a question that silenced everyone: “Should we still hire fresh grads?” Nobody could answer. Not because they didn’t want to — because they didn’t dare. AI …
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 …
Don't run AI assistant on cloud
Before you hit “one-click deploy” on that cloud AI assistant, ask yourself: what exactly are you giving up? There’s a reason why people by Mac mini rather than running clawdbot on the cloud. When AI Becomes Your Butler Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) …
Before you hit “one-click deploy” on that cloud AI assistant, ask yourself: what exactly are you giving up? There’s a reason why people by Mac mini rather than running clawdbot on the cloud. When AI Becomes Your Butler Moltbot (formerly Clawdbot) …
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 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 …
When Answers Become Abundant, Questions Become the New Currency
Answers are depreciating, and your ability to ask questions determines your position in the AI era. Kevin Kelly once said: “In the future, asking questions will be more valuable than answering them. When answers become commodities, good questions are …
Answers are depreciating, and your ability to ask questions determines your position in the AI era. Kevin Kelly once said: “In the future, asking questions will be more valuable than answering them. When answers become commodities, good questions are …
Why PostgreSQL Will Dominate the AI Era
In the Agent era, the underlying logic of software architecture has changed. Over the past decade, we’ve built microservices and “polyglot persistence” to accommodate the collaboration boundaries of human teams, fragmenting our systems into scattered …
In the Agent era, the underlying logic of software architecture has changed. Over the past decade, we’ve built microservices and “polyglot persistence” to accommodate the collaboration boundaries of human teams, fragmenting our systems into scattered …
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 …
Where Will Databases and DBAs Go in the AI Era?
The day before yesterday at the HOW 2025 conference roundtable, Chairman Xiao asked some interesting questions about AI, databases, and DBAs. Here are Feng’s views, organized and published. OLTP / OLAP: Who Gets Revolutionized First? Question: In …
The day before yesterday at the HOW 2025 conference roundtable, Chairman Xiao asked some interesting questions about AI, databases, and DBAs. Here are Feng’s views, organized and published. OLTP / OLAP: Who Gets Revolutionized First? Question: In …
Stop Arguing, The AI Era Database Has Been Settled
This morning, the industry exploded with news of an acquisition. Following Databricks’ $1 billion acquisition of Neon, its rival Snowflake immediately followed by acquiring CrunchyData. According to insiders, this deal was priced at $250 million. …
This morning, the industry exploded with news of an acquisition. Following Databricks’ $1 billion acquisition of Neon, its rival Snowflake immediately followed by acquiring CrunchyData. According to insiders, this deal was priced at $250 million. …
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 …
Dify Gets Humiliated Again: It Can't Catch a Break
Today, something straight out of magical realism unfolded in Dify’s GitHub repository. The open-source community was minding its own business, maintaining the project, when a pull request apparently from Livzon Pharmaceutical landed out of …
Today, something straight out of magical realism unfolded in Dify’s GitHub repository. The open-source community was minding its own business, maintaining the project, when a pull request apparently from Livzon Pharmaceutical landed out of …
Are Specialized Vector Databases Dead?
Vector storage and retrieval is a real need, but specialized vector databases are already dead. The ecological niche left for specialized vector databases might support one company’s survival, but trying to build an industry around AI stories is …
Vector storage and retrieval is a real need, but specialized vector databases are already dead. The ecological niche left for specialized vector databases might support one company’s survival, but trying to build an industry around AI stories is …
Will AI Have Self-Awareness?
WeChat original Large models can appear conscious, but self-awareness is optional—and maybe dangerous before ethics catch up. Pantheon sparked these thoughts. What is self-awareness? When we say “self-awareness,” what do we actually mean? Let’s …
WeChat original Large models can appear conscious, but self-awareness is optional—and maybe dangerous before ethics catch up. Pantheon sparked these thoughts. What is self-awareness? When we say “self-awareness,” what do we actually mean? Let’s …
AI Cult Rhapsody
WeChat original “Humans are the bootloader for silicon life.” —Elon Musk Maybe we’re about to witness an AI-worshipping religion. Imagine this: Humans are lumps of negative entropy, hard-coded to reproduce via clumsy genetics. In digital space, with …
WeChat original “Humans are the bootloader for silicon life.” —Elon Musk Maybe we’re about to witness an AI-worshipping religion. Imagine this: Humans are lumps of negative entropy, hard-coded to reproduce via clumsy genetics. In digital space, with …
Basic Principles of Neural Networks
Neural networks are inspired by how the brain works and can be used to solve general learning problems. This article introduces the basic principles and practice of neural networks. Neural Network Representation Neuron Model Neural networks are …
Neural networks are inspired by how the brain works and can be used to solve general learning problems. This article introduces the basic principles and practice of neural networks. Neural Network Representation Neuron Model Neural networks are …
Statistics Fundamentals: Descriptive Statistics
Statistical analysis is divided into two fields: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive Statistics is the technology for describing or characterizing existing data and is the most fundamental part of statistics. 1. Statistics …
Statistical analysis is divided into two fields: descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. Descriptive Statistics is the technology for describing or characterizing existing data and is the most fundamental part of statistics. 1. Statistics …
Inferential Statistics: The Past and Present of p-values
The core of inferential statistics lies in hypothesis testing. The basic logic is based on an important argument from philosophy of science: universal propositions can only be falsified, not proven. The reasoning is simple: individual cases cannot …
The core of inferential statistics lies in hypothesis testing. The basic logic is based on an important argument from philosophy of science: universal propositions can only be falsified, not proven. The reasoning is simple: individual cases cannot …
Basic Concepts of Probability Theory
1. Set Theory Sample space and sample points are undefined basic concepts in probability theory, like the concepts of points and lines in geometry. Definition: Event Event: An event is a set of sample points. $A=0$ means event A contains no sample …
1. Set Theory Sample space and sample points are undefined basic concepts in probability theory, like the concepts of points and lines in geometry. Definition: Event Event: An event is a set of sample points. $A=0$ means event A contains no sample …
Fundamentals of Information Theory: Entropy
Information theory answers two fundamental questions in communication theory: The critical value for data compression: entropy HHH The critical value for communication transmission rate: channel capacity CCC But information theory’s content extends …
Information theory answers two fundamental questions in communication theory: The critical value for data compression: entropy HHH The critical value for communication transmission rate: channel capacity CCC But information theory’s content extends …
Humans, Society, and Neural Networks
Neural networks emerged inspired by the human brain, so the operational mechanisms of human society also have various similarities and connections with neural network training. This year, I dabbled in many other disciplines. Most were superficial …
Neural networks emerged inspired by the human brain, so the operational mechanisms of human society also have various similarities and connections with neural network training. This year, I dabbled in many other disciplines. Most were superficial …
Fundamental Concepts of Linear Algebra
Connecting all concepts in linear algebra through one main thread Vectors There are three perspectives on vectors: Physics perspective: A vector is an arrow with direction and magnitude Computer perspective: A vector is an ordered list Mathematical …
Connecting all concepts in linear algebra through one main thread Vectors There are three perspectives on vectors: Physics perspective: A vector is an arrow with direction and magnitude Computer perspective: A vector is an ordered list Mathematical …