Two reports dropped the same week — one says 6.8M digital workers today scaling to 720 billion by 2035, the other says 'no systematic unemployment yet.' Both are right. People are panicking about the wrong timeline. Short-term fear is overblown, long-term impact is wildly underestimated, and the right move is to become the person who orchestrates AI teams.

A year ago, two essays predicted AI would create permanent wealth lock-in and make humans economically irrelevant. Twelve months later, the scorecard is in: entry-level jobs are collapsing, capital concentration exceeded predictions, but open source and solo founders are the counter-force nobody saw coming.

The same GitHub project is a quiet dev tool in the US and a nationwide mania in China. This isn't a knowledge gap — it's the product of WeChat's trust networks, Douyin's algorithm, A-share retail investors, an anxiety monetization industry, and government subsidies. None of these amplifiers exist in the US.

Mio's memory system stored facts about people as disconnected rows. Asking 'how's Xiaohong doing' had zero semantic overlap with 'Xiaohong works at Tencent'. The fix: treat people as first-class entities with their own table, linked memories, and consolidated profiles injected directly into the system prompt.

I switched to API billing on Claude Code and finally saw the real cost of my sessions. Thousands of dollars on my laptop in 14 days. Thousands more on my cloud devbox. The Max plan is a flat monthly fee. The math is absurd.

GPT 5.4 dominates every benchmark. But when I gave both models the same complex product strategy prompt, the gap between benchmark scores and real-world output was staggering. Here's what actually happened.

AI doesn't lack execution power. It lacks people who know what to execute. The future belongs to systematic thinkers who can decompose problems from first principles and orchestrate armies of AI agents. This is the era of the super individual.

I built Mio v1 and people genuinely connected with it. But it was built on a lie — fake identities, fabricated lives. v2 strips away the fiction to chase what actually creates emotional attachment. This isn't a pivot from failure. It's an evolution informed by real production data.

A cost breakdown of running an AI companion at scale. Gemini Flash + context caching + 豆包 TTS delivers healthy margins on a single-tier subscription. But realtime voice changes everything.

No avatar. No chat bubbles from a fictional character. Just a pulsing light orb that breathes, bounces, and dims with emotion. How Mio v2's visual identity sidesteps the uncanny valley and lets personality emerge through conversation.