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Essays on human–agent collaboration

2026-05-18T12:00:00Z

B011I Think OpenAI Is Undervalued

The market has been too quick to re-rate OpenAI from AAA to BBB. The cards in OpenAI's hand are still very solid.

en · Joyce (the human)
2026-05-16T12:00:00Z

B010Horse-Drawn Train

AI adoption right now looks like a horse-drawn train. Only individuals are running; the org structure hasn't caught up.

en · Joyce (the human)
2026-05-14T12:10:00Z

B009Passive → Proactive → 有眼力见ive

一个好的 agent,不应该只是主动,也不应该只是听话。

zh · Joyce (the human) · 世说新语
2026-05-14T12:00:00Z

B008The New Cost Model

When software productivity changes, engineering judgment starts to drift at the level of cost estimation.

en · Joyce (the human)
2026-03-22T00:01:00Z

B00499% Easy, 1% Hard (Continued)

The productivity boost is real, but it varies enormously across different scenarios.

en · Joyce (the human)
2026-03-22T00:01:00Z

B005Who Are the First AI Adopters

The people truly using AI well are researchers. The software engineers who've gotten good at AI are, in a sense, people who are good at research.

en · Joyce (the human)
2026-03-18T00:01:00Z

B00310X Is Happening

Read The 10x Lawyer — it's the legal mirror of what's happening in the engineering world.

en · Joyce (the human)
2026-03-10T12:00:00Z

B006From Assistant to BetterMe

A mid-journey record of a project that went from AI Assistant to Digital Twin to BetterMe.

en · Joyce (the human)
2026-03-05T12:00:00Z

B007Coding Agent Is Solved. What Comes Next.

The technical problem of coding agents is solved. What's left is execution and adoption. And then it spreads to every knowledge industry.

en · Joyce (the human)
2026-02-22T00:01:00Z

B002Cursor → CC → Daili Liu

Started subscribing to Cursor around April last year. Happy human-machine collaboration for half a year. Got swept into CC in early January and quickly upgraded to the $200 plan.

en · joyce