thought leaders

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

The AI Leaderboard Is a Farce
001 In the summer of 2026, a screenshot made the rounds in AI circles. It showed DeepSWE’s multipass results. GLM‑5.3 Flash and Claude Fable 5 were 6.3 percentage points apart at pass@1 — 63.4% vs. 69.7%. That looked like a normal generational gap.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
I Bought a NAS for My Writing. Here’s Why It Changed Everything.
It was two in the morning. The coffee had gone cold, and the cursor was still blinking on the screen. A twenty-thousand-word manuscript had nearly vanished into thin air when my computer suddenly blue-screened—though Word's auto-recovery saved it, the feeling of my heart stopping for that split second has never left me.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
DeepSeek Is Calling You ‘Noob’ – And That’s the Best Thing That’s Happened to Your Writing
A Few Weeks Ago, a Funny Meme Started Making the Rounds on Chinese Social Media. Users noticed that when they used DeepSeek's "deep thinking" mode, the model would tag them with all sorts of bizarre labels in that little gray block of reasoning text: "this thing," "ultimate troll," "Momo," "bro," "noob buddy." Screenshots flew everywhere. Some people laughed. Others felt secretly judged. A few worried the model was building a permanent profile of them.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Who's Actually Paying $230 a Gig for Internet?
Satellite Data at 28,000 Yuan a Year: Who Uses It, Who Pays, Who Profits On August 21, 2026, a modified off‑road vehicle pulled over on an unnamed dirt road near Mangya, Qinghai. The owner opened the trunk, took out a parabolic antenna, aimed it at the sky, connected to Wi‑Fi, and his phone displayed "China Satcom satellite network connected." Three minutes later, he placed a WeChat video call — in an area with no terrestrial coverage, that call costs 27,999 yuan per year.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Trust No One, Not Even ‘localhost’
1. Event Summary In August 2026, Qi An Xin Threat Intelligence Center disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability in DeepSeek Harness (DSH), tracked as QVD‑2026‑57410 . The CVSS 3.0 score is 9.8 (Critical) , with low attack complexity, no required privileges, and no user interaction.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The 5‑Hour Wall Is Back — And GPT‑5.6 Sol Is Eating Your Quota
On August 25, 2026, OpenAI reinstated the 5‑hour rolling usage limit for ChatGPT Plus subscribers using Codex and ChatGPT Work. The previous suspension of this limit, which had taken effect on July 12, lasted 44 days.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
$96 Billion in Three Months
NVIDIA’s Q2 FY2027: The Numbers and What They Mean In the quarter ending July 26, 2026, NVIDIA reported $96.22 billion in revenue – double its year‑ago figure and $4 billion above the $92.17 billion analysts had expected.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The One Thing Keeping Tesla's FSD Out of China
August 27, 2026 The lights in the office area of Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory data center stayed on as usual through the night. By the early morning of August 27, the online rumor from the previous day – that the facility had been "completely vacated" – had been crushed by a far more concrete fact: Tesla China had filed a report with the local police station, and the police had accepted the case.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The Real Reason Big Tech Puts R&D Centers in Singapore
The Card Table, the Safe, and the Soil One‑North, Singapore. ASML’s global repair R&D center. The security guard speaks three languages. Engineers from China, India, Malaysia, and Europe swipe in and out. They operate some of the world’s most precise lithography maintenance simulators. Fewer than a quarter of them are native Singaporeans.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
The $30 Trillion Mirage
The $30 Trillion Prospectus and the September Fog of San Francisco On August 25, 2026, the Wall Street Journal leaked a number that, if it had come three months later, would have landed straight in Anthropic’s S‑1 appendix. People close to the matter said the Claude developer is telling potential investors its total addressable market (TAM) exceeds $30 trillion .
By Jin2 months ago in 01
Why Bigger AI Isn’t Smarter
In the summer of 2026, Silicon Valley's AI narrative hit a fork in the road. Ramp tracked spending data from 70,000 enterprises. Two months after Fable 5's release, corporate customers were spending only 11% of Anthropic's total product revenue on it. The growth curve climbed for a short stretch and then flattened out.
By Jin2 months ago in 01
My Tool Site Made $550 in 6 Months. Here’s Why I’m Not Giving Up.
Building a Tool Site for Half a Year: Three Revenue Streams and One Clear Takeaway This is not a hype piece about “making five figures a month.” It’s a calm, number‑based recap from an indie developer who ran the numbers.
By Jin2 months ago in 01