A Money-Losing Vending Machine and the Future of AI Economics It Reveals

Last week, Anthropic released a video documenting their experiment of having Claude

When Models Absorb Uncertainty: The Economic Inevitability of AI Agents Replacing Human Labor

Enterprise decision-makers face a choice. On one side of the scale sits

When We Design AI Agents, What Kind of "Self" Are We Designing?

When engineers design AI Agents, they encounter what appears to be a

Logic Granularity: A Founder’s Blueprint for Reliable Vibe-Coding Workflows

How to orchestrate AI agents, freeze complexity, and ship faster than teams

Navigating Incremental vs. Existing Markets in Generative AI: Balancing Product Vision and Practicality

Generative AI has opened new frontiers for indie hackers and startup leaders

The LLM API War: Strategy, Open Source Advantage, and the Path to Scale

The landscape of large language models (LLMs) has evolved rapidly, with multiple

Building Taiwan’s Next AI Frontier—A Pragmatic Approach to DeepSeek R1 and Beyond

If there’s one thing I learned from growing up in Taiwan

Navigating Market-Product Fit, Pricing Tiers, and Emerging AI Trends: Lessons from Brian Balfour, OpenAI, and Pictotales

In the indie hacker world, we often emphasize building in public—openly

PictoTales Series 3: My Journey Adapting to Modern Tech Stacks and AI-Driven Development

Welcome to my indie hacker blog series where I share the ups

Riding the AI Wave, Part 2: How Organization, People, and Culture Empower Solo Indie Hackers

In our last post, we explored Dr. Li Ji Ren’s 5C

Fast, Smarter, and Under 500ms—Achieving Real-Time AI with Reflection

Introduction In the first article, we unpacked how CoT reasoning and agentic

Reflective Detours and Dynamic Journeys—How CoT + Agentic Flow Fuel AI (and Startup) Growth

In the indie hacker spirit, I’ve been sharing the wins, losses,