Trust by Default Is a Cost Problem
One night YC quietly gave its AI agent full access to the production database. The agent became 10x more useful. That experiment, told in the Lightcone episo...
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AI
When even the experts feel like clients
Ethan Mollick got early access to Claude 5 Fable, the first Mythos-class model, and wrote up what it felt like to use. The facts alone are worth the read. He...
The Flour Mill Problem: Why ‘Good Enough’ AI Changes Everything
On August 20, a model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter with no company name, no press release, and no logo. Just a stealth label and a price tag of zer...
Notes on an uncensored Qwen3.8
Orca Router dropped uncensored weights of Qwen3.8-27B on Hugging Face this week: full precision (gated), plus open GGUF, FP8, and MLX builds. The GGUFs pulle...
The Dilemma of B2B Software in the Agent-First Age
I read a post by Paul Graham on X a while back. It was mostly about something else, but somewhere in the middle he made a one-sentence statement about the fu...
My Take: Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI
Tyler Cowen wrote Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI for The Free Press. The short version: look for messy jobs that are hard to describe, be wary of ...
The Science Paper Behind the Amazon Cities
In January 2024, a team led by French archaeologist Stéphen Rostain published a landmark paper in Science: “Two thousand years of garden urbanism in the Uppe...
The Bug in the Map
I love it when you find a bug in the world. Not a software bug, but an error in the official story of things. A detail that doesn’t quite fit.
The Great Consolidation
I’ve noticed something when using GitHub Copilot. If I start writing code to analyze data, it almost always suggests Python and the pandas library. Usually a...
Technology
Trust by Default Is a Cost Problem
One night YC quietly gave its AI agent full access to the production database. The agent became 10x more useful. That experiment, told in the Lightcone episo...
The Dilemma of B2B Software in the Agent-First Age
I read a post by Paul Graham on X a while back. It was mostly about something else, but somewhere in the middle he made a one-sentence statement about the fu...
The Engine Under the Hood
In most companies running a generative AI programme, I’m the person people send when they can’t decide which model to pick. The question comes around every f...
Which Scaffolding for Your AI Agent?
LLMs are impressive. The real work begins after the demo, when you have to make an AI do something useful. That means giving it tools, connecting it to data,...
Economics
Blame the saving rate
Yi Fuxian blames the one-child policy for China’s fed-up youth in this Project Syndicate piece. The mechanism he describes, fewer children weakening househol...
The Flour Mill Problem: Why ‘Good Enough’ AI Changes Everything
On August 20, a model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter with no company name, no press release, and no logo. Just a stealth label and a price tag of zer...
The Dilemma of B2B Software in the Agent-First Age
I read a post by Paul Graham on X a while back. It was mostly about something else, but somewhere in the middle he made a one-sentence statement about the fu...
History
The Science Paper Behind the Amazon Cities
In January 2024, a team led by French archaeologist Stéphen Rostain published a landmark paper in Science: “Two thousand years of garden urbanism in the Uppe...
The Bug in the Map
I love it when you find a bug in the world. Not a software bug, but an error in the official story of things. A detail that doesn’t quite fit.
Work
When even the experts feel like clients
Ethan Mollick got early access to Claude 5 Fable, the first Mythos-class model, and wrote up what it felt like to use. The facts alone are worth the read. He...
My Take: Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI
Tyler Cowen wrote Seven Ways to Avoid Losing Your Job to AI for The Free Press. The short version: look for messy jobs that are hard to describe, be wary of ...
Governance
Doctrine of Proactive Governance
Doctrine of Proactive Governance
Projects
An Elo rating for every rikishi since 1958
I built an Elo rating for every rikishi who competed since 1958. The dashboard is live at yuxichau.com/projects/sumo-elo/.