PanPanMao build diary Days 5-10: Vitest testing sprint, the birth of the PanPanMao cat brand, landing page design, Stripe integration, and credit economy with dried fish treats.

PanPanMao build diary Days 2-4: CSS restoration hell, extracting shared packages, adding MBTI app, WeChat browser detection, and the unified API layer with 52 migrated routes.

PanPanMao build diary Day 1: Starting a Chinese metaphysics AI platform with zero domain knowledge. 21 commits, monorepo setup, and the hypothesis that AI can bridge any knowledge gap.

We spent our careers training to be world-class rowers — algorithms, spotless code, endurance. AI is a steam engine under the deck, and the leverage moves to navigation: choosing the destination, the route, and the cargo. What that shift means for staying valuable as an engineer.

Treating AI like a fancy search engine barely scratches the surface. The better mental model is a brilliant intern, and the skills that matter are a Software Development Manager's: defining tasks well, supplying context, reviewing output, and building feedback loops.