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The Gemini 3.5 Flash launch barely talked about intelligence; Zhipu’s GLM-5.1 High-Speed edition hit 400 token/s. Both tell the same story—once inference speed crosses that 5× threshold, the model unlocks an entirely different product category.
Today I went to the AMD Developer Conference in Shanghai. Over 2,000 people packed the venue, and AMD gave one of its two developer awards to a non-coder who used an AI agent to rewrite a project in Rust. A year ago everyone worried about demand; six months later, all anyone asks is: 'Got more supply?'
I recently worked on a few AI content batching projects and realized something I'd miscalculated: going from a working demo to a fully automated pipeline takes at least 3× the time, not 50%. The extra two hours go entirely into QA and retries. Here's what I learned about where mid-tier models and local compute actually fit.
A friend asked where to start with Vibe Coding. Two paths: start from work, or start from your digital identity. The prerequisite is that what you put out must be the real you—the internet has memory, and the old tweets dug up on Kevin Hart were from ten years ago.
Two weeks since GPT-5.5, codenamed SPUD, went live, I've more or less stopped opening Claude Code. What surprised me wasn't that it got a few percentage points stronger—it was that after several long-standing weaknesses were fixed all at once, the design philosophy of agents became clear for the first time.
Liking an idea or starring a repo now takes seconds. But turning an idea into something truly usable—the longest, most tedious stretch in between—hasn't been shortened by vibe coding. Some personal reflections, plus the common thread between Steve Jobs and Allen Zhang.
Get banned on WeChat and you vanish from the worlds of thousands. Code leaks cost assets; portrait leaks cost you yourself. In the AI era, ownership of digital identity is more dangerous than you think.
A non-technical outsider's experiment with Claude Code: 300,000 lines of code in 10 days, realized it was a dead end, tore it all down. 48 hours later, end-to-end working with less than 10,000 lines. Code is a liability, not an asset.
