Nango in Practice: Let Users Add Their Own MCP Servers in Chat
A model needs a tool to check project status. A user asks, “What’s blocking the demo project?” The model understands the question, but has no way to …
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Personal Agent Technical Research: How OpenClaw Connects One Run to Long-Lived Work
For a Personal Agent to do things reliably on someone’s behalf, it has to connect a single model run to a recoverable task and confirm the result …
Personal Agent Product Research: How Instinct Makes People Willing to Delegate Again
For a Personal Agent to earn repeated use, the user has to genuinely carry less of the mental load. If handing over an operation still means chasing …
Why Opus 5.5 Makes Better Animations: What Real Projects Reveal
An animated character moves through several shots without changing color or proportions. Captions appear on cue, and the final movement lands on a …
Maintaining a UI on Your Own: A Design System with Figma, Figwright, and AI
I build products on my own, and I want a design system that helps me maintain their UI and frontend over time. Finishing a page is only the …
IMStage: Editable Chat Scenes
The same support demo needs a WeChat version, a WhatsApp version, and different people and photos. The dialogue barely changes, but the image has to …
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Growth, reflection, and lived experience
September 2026 Thought Notes: Architecture, Temples and First Principles
2026 September Thought Notes 220 notes this month | recorded from 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-10 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 105 · Daily Notes and …
August 2026 Thought Notes: Agent Harness, Product and Self-Knowledge
2026 August Thought Notes 484 notes this month | recorded from 2026-08-04 to 2026-08-31 Themes: AI and Agent Systems 212 · Daily Notes and …
AI Made Me Smarter-and Slower to Meet Reality
During a 48-hour engineering task, I wrote down one sentence: “At this point, I’ve spent half the time designing, researching, understanding the …
I Don't Have an Execution Problem. I Need a Battlefield That Can Say No
At the beginning of 2026, my GitHub contribution graph stayed nearly blank for several weeks. A few months later, the same graph showed hundreds of …
Reading Hongyi in Quanzhou: Seeing Through, Then Taking Life Seriously
At dusk, I sat on the rooftop of Youli Café and raised my coffee cup toward the twin pagodas of Kaiyuan Temple. The camera recognized the distant …
The Scoreboard You Choose Will Eventually Choose You: How Incentives Reshape an Organization
This is a thought experiment-style simulated interview. The respondents are composed of organizational psychology and organizational economics …
