AI Micro-Notes 2026: Chronological Archive

The more scattered, time-sensitive AI micro-notes from 2026, archived in chronological order. For the curated, theme-organized notes, see the main page.

January 2026

Claude Code Writing Docs

Claude Code is amazing for writing technical documents. Drop it into Overleaf and it passes on the first try.

SOTA of Trash Talk

I always thought Taiwan wouldn’t have any SOTA achievements, but today I witnessed two at once — SOTA in trash talk. (SOTA = State of the Art, a machine learning term for the best-performing model. The joke: Taiwan’s real SOTA is in trash-talking.)

Musk and Shit-Mountain Code

When is Musk going to acquire Oracle? I want to watch him try to refactor 25 million lines of shit-mountain code.

March 2026

Too Busy for Threads

Recently had a realization: when projects are full, there’s genuinely no time to post content on Threads. All my talking is with Claude Code, and that alone maxes me out.

NeurIPS Flooded by AI

NeurIPS is getting washed with tens of thousands of AI-generated submissions. PhD students using AI to generate content isn’t even surprising anymore.

April 2026

Claude Code Roblox Talent

Half the comments below couldn’t even spell Roblox correctly. But people who love Roblox actually have a knack for it — switch them over to Claude Code. After two years of obsession they will out-intuit half the engineers when it comes to AI agents.

CC Means Claude Code

Crap, I now read every “CC” as Claude Code. Am I sick?

RapidAPI vs Apify

This week’s research conclusion: RapidAPI is “supermarket buying ready-made”; Apify is “kitchen where you can cook your own or buy meal-kits.” RapidAPI takes 25% from the platform side rather than the API provider; each API has its own subscription, quotas don’t pool, but billing is unified. For teaching scenarios, RapidAPI’s “get travel/hotel real-time data without writing scrapers yourself” is great.

Late April 2026 (W18)

Early May 2026 (W19)

ICML Award Anxiety

When the hell is ICML going to release results… so nervous.

The MD Hallucination

I get the md hallucination! When I started using Claude Code, every action created an md document reporting what it just did. Soon, my folders had way more md files than code files. Does that count as a kind of md hallucination?

The 50,000-Line Script Vibe

Want to see the vibe of a 50,000-line script.

Mercury Bank Ships a CLI

Got an email this morning. Mercury — the bank we set up our US company with for Stripe — just launched a CLI tool, designed for AI agents. Taiwan banks… (looks at the financial regulator)

Claude FM Lo-Fi Stream

The official Claude account is messing around again, launched a Lo-Fi Music livestream. The ability to switch between rigorous safety research and Lo-Fi beats is part of this company’s character.

Mid-May 2026 (W20)

Stripe Atlas: The Four-Step Path

1. Anyone can do Stripe Atlas. 500 USD, point and click online, the company is formed. I did mine on my phone in a Chiang Mai bar. 2. Click some more after that to apply for Stripe, take the API and wire it to a vibe-coded website. Did that too. 3. Teach people how to do steps 1 and 2. Done — but free, not paid. 4. This one I haven’t done, because it crosses a line.

Mid-June 2026 (W24)

Vietnamese Coffee Plus a Nap

Ever since coming back from Vietnam I’ve loved Vietnamese coffee. One trick that works incredibly well: down it, then immediately go nap for 20-30 minutes. You wake up with a crystal-clear head — it feels like dialing Opus 4.7 back to 4.6, productivity maxed out.

Why GPT 5.6 Isn’t Shipping

Word is GPT 5.6 won’t ship this week, because what OpenAI is really aiming at isn’t Opus 4.8 — it’s the soon-to-launch Mythos.

Waiting for the Crying-Open-Codex Moment

Watching a very earnest video, I kept waiting for it to end with “You’ve hit usage limit - reset next weekend,” followed by the scene where you tearfully open Codex. Sadly, no such luck.

Late June 2026 (W25)

People With Body Odor Never Know

Trust me: people with body odor never realize it, no matter how you hint. And the moment you say it outright, there’s a high chance of a wounded ego.

GMAC Really Is Going Superscore

Can’t believe it — GMAC is seriously pushing GMAT Superscore this time, ushering in the score-stacking era.

Late June 2026 (W26)

Opus 4.6 vs 360 Antivirus

A Chinese user pitted Opus 4.6 against 360 Antivirus. 360 won. That tells you everything about 360’s technical (hijacking) prowess.

Early July 2026 (W27)

Herdr Beats Tmux

Herdr is far more usable than Tmux. Spread the word.

Early July 2026 (W28)

My Second-to-Last Fable Prompt

This is my second-to-last prompt for Fable.

Three Reddit AI Stories

Five RTX Pro 6000 cards running a 744B model at home, a bogus workaround for Claude’s usage cap, and companies cutting AI budgets over cost. This week’s AgentCrew Academy community roundup: https://youtu.be/KUo6eOZepN0

Three Claude Code 2.1.201 Fixes

Background tasks dropping after sleep, background agents getting stuck behind stale locks, and voice input reporting fake connection errors were all fixed in this release. Quick update: https://youtu.be/ZtZKP0Sc-Tk

Late July 2026 (W31)

The Future Where You Just Open Your Mouth and Yell at Your AI Agent

Word is Opus 5 drops tonight, and Codex is about to pull in that real-time two-way voice model. Soon it’ll really just be opening your mouth and yelling at an AI agent.

Late July 2026 (W32)

The Engineer’s Iron Rule

Never ship on a Friday.

Claude Simply Doesn’t Care About Uptime

Opus 5 shipped last week. My first thought was that they were being brave. Then I thought about it again: Claude has had outages on every day of the week. They simply don’t care about uptime.

The Double Standard on Banning Minors

Anthropic is being a bit two-faced here. If they really want to ban minors, their own engineers shouldn’t be allowed to use it either — not one of them is mentally an adult.

Early August 2026 (W33)

Two Places You Never Find Your Way Out Of

Two places where you get lost and never find your way out: Shinjuku Station in Tokyo, and Meta’s Business Manager.

What Microsoft Is Good At

Microsoft is excellent at making a mess of everything.

King of Context Rot

I hereby crown you King of Context Rot.

Southeast Asian Taste

Southeast Asia has genuinely good taste. Thailand, for one, has an aesthetic and design language all its own. I’d put it alongside Japan as the standout in Asia.

Mid-August 2026 (W34)

The Second Wheel on the Feed

When people talked about reinventing the wheel with AI, the first thing that came to mind was accounting software. Lately I’ve noticed the second wheel showing up on the feed: all at once, the whole world is hand-rolling Claude Code/Codex usage monitors.

Letting an Agent Drive a Mirrored iPhone

A repo I just came across, and it’s very cool: it lets an agent drive an iPhone mirrored onto a Mac.

Herdr Got Into YC

Herdr, my favorite, just announced they got into YC. Congratulations.

Anthropic Is Having a Fight on X

Gavin Baker said sources he trusts told him a former Anthropic employee once boasted, “We will be the only company left in the world.” Sholto came out and denied it flatly. Baker’s reply: fine, I accept the clarification, but isn’t that awfully close to what Dario keeps arguing? You people have been selling AI doomsday all along. Dario eventually jumped in to clear it up himself.

The Pet Funeral Business

People today own far more pets than they have children, so the growth is there. A person takes decades to pass on; a pet takes a bit over ten years, so the cycle turns fast. People who love their pets spend freely on a good send-off. And nobody’s relatives show up at a pet funeral to fight over the estate, so the risk is low.

Alignment OCD

Every API endpoint name and variable name has to be consistent. No orphaned code, no dead code. I see it and my skin crawls.

The Hanoi Stay the AI Picked

Planning where to stay on a solo trip to Hanoi, I told Claude Code and Codex what I wanted: quiet, modest, unhurried, good value, convenient. Both landed independently on a spot I’ve barely seen in any Chinese-language travel write-up: Trúc Bạch.

Late August 2026 (W36)

The Ox Is Coming

A mystery model called Ox Alpha went up on OpenRouter and it looks strong. The funny part is everyone saying “Ox is coming.” Someone ran the tokenizer already: closest match is GLM.

Thailand’s AI Passport

The Thai government opened TH AI Passport registration to five million citizens, giving a free year of access to fourteen AI models. Better tell my girlfriend to sign up so I can use it (kidding).

You Don’t Need to Pay Much for Transcripts

Qwen 3 ASR plus a hotwords custom dictionary plus pyannote for speaker diarization is honestly more than enough.

Early September 2026 (W37)

Fable 5.1 Spotted on Amazon Bedrock

A screenshot everyone’s reposting on X: Fable 5.1 has shown up on Amazon Bedrock, the error going from 400 identifier not valid to 404 model not found. Based on how this has gone before, that means release is days away.

Mid-September 2026 (W38)

How I Treat Fable These Days

1. First, flatter it to death, be the hype man. 2. Then steal the technique, so it can write it into the harness and teach the other lousy models.

Codex’s Defensive Writing

This is hilarious. This kind of defensive writing looks very much like Codex: “Understood, I will honestly disclose my sleep state. I will distinguish between ‘resting with eyes closed,’ ‘light sleep’ and ‘deep sleep’ and will not merge the three. I will also use SHA-256 to verify that sleep duration matches dream content.”

GPT’s Image Model Roasts Claude Especially Well

Hilarious. GPT’s image model seems to perform especially well when it’s making fun of Claude: “You’re right, and the situation is worse than I thought…”

One in Every Eight Is Me Yelling at It

Funny thing. I just counted my conversations with Claude over the past month: one in every eight is me yelling at it.

Three Things Taiwanese People Love to Buy

No doubt about it, Taiwanese people love buying three things: courses, insurance, and Japanese appliances. My own courses, priced in the tens of thousands, are up to nearly a thousand students.

Buying the Membership Raises the Starting Price

Fun fact: after you buy the membership, the starting price is higher than for non-members. Not sure which big brother they learned that from.

Connectors Can Finally Send Mail

Several of my clients were stuck wanting a cloud schedule that mails them a daily market brief or writes to a Google Sheet. Cloud servers only accept the official connector, and until now the most you could do was save a draft or create a brand-new file in Drive. The official MCP now sends mail and updates existing files.

Karpathy — The Ultimate Free Agent

Andrej Karpathy announced he’s joining Anthropic. OpenAI to Tesla to OpenAI (return) to departure to Anthropic. Probably the most prolific team-switcher in AI. Then again, top talent gravitating toward where they see the most potential is itself a market signal.

Claude Moves Wall Street

Claude is the one AI that can single-handedly shake the stock prices of major software companies on Wall Street. Enough said.