thought leaders

All about the thought leading tech entrepreneurs who are paving the digital path of the future.

I Spent Three Days at the 2026 Yunqi Conference. The Real Story Wasn’t the AI Models.
Hangzhou, September 22 to 24. The 2026 Yunqi Conference took over the Hangzhou International Expo Center. The theme was “Intelligence for Practical Use.” For the first time, the event split across two locations. Xiaoshan hosted the main venue and industry work. West Lake’s Yunqi Town focused on early research. The two sides sat across the Qiantang River.
By Jin29 days ago in 01
Only 11% of AI Agents Reach Production. Here’s What the Other 89% Are Missing.
After the AI coding boom, agentic apps multiplied. Connect a model, mount a knowledge base, add a few tools, and you can build an agent that retrieves, analyzes, and writes. Demos get smoother. Launches get louder. Startups multiply. It looks like spring.
By Jin29 days ago in 01
I read the leaked system prompt behind GPT-6 Sol’s Codex Desktop
I read the leaked system prompt behind GPT-6 Sol’s Codex Desktop In July 2026, security researcher @elder_plinius extracted a system prompt of more than 42,000 words from GPT-6 Sol’s Codex Desktop. The model did not output illegal content. It did not bypass safety filters. It read out its own operating manual.
By Jin29 days ago in 01
A Random Number Generator Beat a Hyped AI Model at a Maze. Here’s Why AI Builders Should Pay Attention.
A random-number server with Jev’s API format is running. Rust. xoshiro256++ as the random source. Bit reservoir buffering. Tokio/Hyper wrapping HTTP. It returns a number every 0.5 to 0.8 nanoseconds. The maze is a 2D grid with walls and an endpoint. A request goes in. It returns a direction. No model. No weights. No GPU.
By Jin30 days ago in 01
OpenAI Cut GPT-6 Prices in Half. The Benchmarks Show What You Give Up.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna: Cheaper, Faster, and Not Always Better On September 22, 2026, OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. Less than a month after GPT-6 Astra, the product line shrank from four tiers (Astra, Sol, Terra, Luna) to three: Astra, Sol, Luna. Terra is gone. Sol's price moved into the former Terra range. Luna's input price fell to $0.10 per million tokens.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
I Used AI for Every Work Task. Then I Noticed I’d Stopped Thinking.
Will Long-Term Reliance on AI at Work Degrade Your Skills? The leader walks over. Three o’clock. A client is coming. You handle reception. You nod.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
What Xiaomi’s Cheapest AI Couldn’t Fix
The Queue at 2 A.M. A story based on Xiaomi’s MiMo-V2.6 release. I remember the exact time because the alert hit my phone at 2:14 a.m. A logistics client in Shah Alam couldn’t scan inbound pallets. Their terminal logs were a mess. Our old model, MiMo V2.5, was supposed to inspect those logs. It had scored 65.2 on Terminal Bench 2.1, which sounded fine in a slide. In practice, it missed the one line that mattered: a certificate expiry buried under three hundred retry errors.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
The Bootstrapped Agency Doing $1M a Month
A good product shipped on a Tuesday without any strategy can disappear by lunch. Subah Wadhwani has watched it happen enough times to know the pattern by heart. A founder spends a year building something real, publishes a post, and then sits refreshing a feed that disappoints. That gap, between what deserves attention and what gets it, is the reason his company exists.
By Vipan K.about a month ago in 01
I Ran Qwen-Image-2.1 on a 4070 Ti. It Deleted Half My Workflow in 1.8 Seconds.
1.8 Seconds, 7B, and a 4070 Ti On September 20, someone who builds e-commerce product pages loaded Qwen-Image-2.1 into ComfyUI. He had used FLUX.1 [dev]. At 1024×1024 and thirty steps, the progress bar took 3.6 seconds and VRAM usage hit 24 GB. This time he clicked generate, left to pour a glass of water, and came back to an image on screen. The timer read 1.8 seconds. VRAM read 14.2 GB. He deleted half of his old workflow: text-to-image, cutout, composite, local repaint.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
0% vs. 10%: The AI Debate That Could Decide Everything—and Nobody Can Prove Either Number
Between 0% and 10%: Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei, and a Debate Interrupted by a Presidential Call I On September 15, Jensen Huang took the stage at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference in San Francisco wearing his usual black leather jacket.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
I Did the Math on Apple's 1TB iPhone Tax. It's an Anxiety Tax.
After the iPhone 18 Pro price hike, 1TB or 256GB: do the math, don't pay for anxiety Settings > General > iPhone Storage. Photos 98GB, WeChat 74GB, System Data 31GB, 12.4GB remaining. System Suggestion: Offload Unused Apps. You tap Later. The next day, you tap Later again.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01
Why I Set My Phone and Computer to English (Even Though I’m Not Fluent)
At two in the morning, he changed the Windows display language from Chinese (Simplified) to English (United States). The system asked for a restart. He clicked "Restart now." The screen went dark. The fan kept spinning. Three minutes later, the lock screen was in English. He opened the browser and pasted yesterday's error message into the search box. The error was in English, because the software outputs English logs by default under an English system. The first result was a Stack Overflow thread. Someone had asked five years ago. Someone else updated it three years ago. The answer sat at the top.
By Jinabout a month ago in 01