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GitHub stars are instant, but shipping something usable is a slog. I explain why vibe coding doesn't close the gap: what Jobs and Zhang Xiaolong share.

Karpathy dropped 'vibe coding'; Amazon requires senior sign-off on AI code. I explain how AI coding changed breadth, speed, and quality—but not ownership.

Cheng Li-wun's mainland trip, Xiaomi joke to Lei Jun, and livestream bypassing mainstream media show a Spring-and-Autumn-style opening for new leadership.

Opus 4.7 kept me up. I tested it, merged OpenClaude PRs, and pushed Strix Halo Qwen3-30B prefill to DGX Spark levels. Agents make parallel work real.

Anthropic's real-name rule stirred China, but I expected it: since 2023, AI has been at war over chip bans, military contracts, and model lockouts.

Another GPT-6 'release' went viral: fake news wins attention, real reporting is a niche. AI is making the problem worse, so I moved us back to Claude Code.

I wasted four hours on Claude Code's Chrome extension; Xiaohongshu posts got soft-throttled. AI didn't turn failure into success—it made failure faster.

Production is cheap; speed wins. Karpathy: 700 experiments, 2 days; Lei Jun: polls in days. Digital identity is the top personal leverage—act by year-end.

AI coding doesn't cut failures; it speeds them up. Chrome plugin took four hours, a search; my Xiaohongshu test flopped. 3 rounds in 3 months clear blockers.

GitHub is becoming Xiaohongshu and official accounts, GitHub. A dumpling-shop owner vibe-codes a skill; agent interoperability, not skills, is the shift.

Aima Service retrospective: like an ER, users want care, not decor. One week with Claude Code + Codex, we shipped 1.3M lines; the code-volume moat is gone.

Jensen Huang: coding agents change the world, but only millions use them. Three mental gaps—not skills—block adoption; 95% of PC work can be delegated.