I saw a line today, a Chinese saying someone posted: “the caveman who first invented cooking food over fire could never have imagined that in 2026 there would still be a job called chef.” It...

OpenAI dropped GPT 5.6 today. Sol now has an “Ultra” setting for thinking effort. I saw that and my first thought wasn’t about the model itself. I was thinking about tech trees, like in an...

Got back to my apartment after being away for a while, and the washing machine had been sitting unused for about a year. First load came out smelling terrible. Normally that’s the kind of small...

Saw Unity announce their AI Open Beta this morning. I have been out of gaming and the game engine business for a long time, but I still remember meeting their ex-CEO JR in SF more...

Saw a few more people getting into the token reseller business this week, the relay/proxy kind. Even Fu Sheng and Justin Sun are doing it now. The setup is to wholesale tokens from OpenAI or...

Read Anthropic’s Managed Agents post this morning. The gist is they’re decoupling the agent brain from the hands, making the harness stateless. Their own post says this mirrors how operating systems virtualized hardware decades ago....

After my gaming company, I spent some years doing fund of funds investing. Over that time I talked to more than 160 VC partners across the US and Asia as an LP. Since the recent...

Anthropic’s engineering team published a blog post this week about how they design long-running agent systems. The main pattern they use is from GANs: separate the agent doing the work from the agent judging it....

Blizzard spent 10 years building World of Warcraft. Even now, with AI that can write code, generate art, music, 3D models, lore, dialogue, everything, it’s still not possible to vibe code WoW. Not in a...

I’ve been testing my agents lately and I noticed something. The ability to design good agent behavior comes down to how deeply I understand the world. Not to play God, but to learn from how...

There’s been a lot of debate about token pricing lately. Some people think chip costs are going up, that the pace of new models is too aggressive, and that token prices will keep climbing. Then...

1 I woke up at 7:40, twenty minutes before my alarm. Light was coming through the gap in the curtains. I could hear someone in the kitchen, probably Jake making coffee. He always gets up...

Two days ago I wrote about ordering a 128GB Mac. Yesterday Anthropic announced the max subscription for Claude Code now supports a 1M context window. 200K to 1M. The timing was kind of funny. Same...

I just ordered an M5 Max MacBook Pro with 128GB of RAM. Picking the configuration on the Apple website, I started thinking about numbers. In 1985 I was using an Apple II with 5.25-inch floppy...

I saw Karpathy released autoresearch. An agent gets a training script and a markdown file with instructions. It modifies the training code, runs 5 minutes of training, checks the score, keeps or reverts, and loops....

I’ve been using coding agents every day for a while now. Claude Code, Codex, whatever I can get my hands on. There’s this thing they all do. I give them a task and they go...

I’ve seen the internet evolve a few times. Built developer communities back when the App Store first opened, watched the whole mobile era play out. Agents are growing so fast right now and there’s an...

Someone built a 200-line AI agent and told it one thing: “evolve yourself until you rival Claude Code.” Then he stopped touching the code. Every 8 hours a GitHub Action wakes it up. It reads...

*Published: 2026-03-06 | ID: 60 | URL: https://pgc.ai/when-the-barrier-is-zero/* Saw someone say: “Whenever I see an article that’s super long, has clear logic, comprehensive citations, not a single typo, and even lists all references at the...

I’ve been quiet for two years. Not gone, just quiet. I started this blog back in late 2023, mostly just writing for myself. Not many people know it exists. But I never stopped working with...