Kuan Yu
@kuanyu
Building. Making Singapore a nation of founders.
I build AI agents that do real work.
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Needed a one-of-a-kind electronic item. No luck on Carousell, FB Marketplace or eBay. Found it on Allegro Lokalnie in POLAND.
Grok helped end to end: search, Polish messages, customs, shipping, tracking and setup in Singapore.
IT WORKED. Thank you, Grok.
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lesson from the current project:
you kept building when the missing piece was somebody's decision.
grokbot is working! set up my grokbot procurement agent that sources for things i usually buy and today it pinged me on this!
I keep telling people to find what AI is naturally good at.
Then I get it to draft my replies. It’s NOT good at that.
Half a day to get one I’m happy with.
I must stop.
in my mind, i visualise everyday, i need to prompt more. i need to accelerate MORE, throttle on max and keep going, MORE. but what if its not acceleration, but splitting and swarming.
new blog post: why taking inference scaling seriously leads to swarms.
contrary to popular belief, I don't think multi-agent systems are a new scaling axis. they're just structured inference scaling.
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how i decide whether to try something new: a friend i trust, or a 1 hour podcast of the founder.
that's how i ended up on muse after alexandr wang. same with devin.
The full episode is on X
wife and mom delete photos one by one. dad just buys a new phone.
me? dumped it all on a hard drive for ~10 years. never opened it. waiting for AI to get good enough.
today codex is sorting 600GB on my NAS. searching by place and date, making albums, flagging junk.
finally.
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m5 pro macbook always on me. still felt like a caveman.
ive been lucky, always at my desk. then: conferences, family hospital visits, a ship date.
finally get the remote coding agent thing. 3 /goal on a second macbook now.
which stays home, the m5 pro or the older one?
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ns conference is our chinese new year.
we lived, built, trained and ate together for years. like family. then everyone went off on their own adventures.
once a year, we come back.
dress up. turn up. half of me: should i even go? what do i say?
then i see the faces. happy again.
even got angbao. $120 in zcash.
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The Bitter Lesson explained with a music video.
Extraordinary.
100%. 4 accounts, full resets, no 5-hour limits. want to use them well by eod.
woke up at 6am thinking how to do that without just cranking reasoning to burn quota.
even with /goal + ultra, i still need to find enough useful work.
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I was literally just recording a video about this phenomenon of the fact that we seem to have crossed the threshold where quota is no longer the binding constraint, it is us.
We humans are now the binding constraint in terms of our ability to consume what we're producing and our ability to learn and understand. Our metabolic throughput and our energetic throughput and our temporal throughput is now the bottleneck, not the intelligence of the models and not our quotas.
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ai hasn't made me millions of dollars. yet.
but it's saving me $3 a running gel.
always thought making my own would require a chemistry degree. grokbot bought the ingredients on shopee and gave me a recipe. items arrived, i mixed them. done.
off for a long run. then back to trying to make those millions.
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A visualization of every Claude effort level, made with Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5.
@claudeai
tested 5 models on the same 5 scanned invoice packs tonight. invoice + delivery order + receiving slip. typed and handwritten. scored field by field against a checked answer key.
seconds per pack:
claude sonnet 5.5: 11
gpt-6-luna: 13
gpt-6-astra: 19
gpt-6.1-sol (out today): 31
gpt-6-sol medium: 69
gpt-6-sol high: 103
zero wrong values on all of them except luna. it read a tick mark through a quantity as someone changing the number by hand.
more reasoning bought nothing. same values at 69s and 103s.
newest model wasnt the fastest. and it hit "model at capacity" on launch day.
picked astra since it runs on my chatgpt plan. sonnet is the backup.
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366 things people built with gpt-6 astra.
made astra atlas to browse them all. videos side by side, grouped by category, with links to the original creators.
@OpenAIDevs more for the community showcase.
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you can get so used to adversity that it stops bothering you.
just don't want to get good at tolerating things i should change.
“The lifestyle of an entrepreneur at its core is: I can take more pain than the other guy, and I'll prove it.”
“ There's a zen that can happen when a warrior has fought for a long time. You can get used to it.”
“ You almost start accepting it. Like, something bad happens and you don't even get mad.”
“ There are benefits. But you need to make sure you don't get so used to it that it doesn't even bother you. You can get so zen, you're unbothered.”
“ There's something special about the extra fierceness of being bothered, being upset about something that is wrong.”
— @travisk
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6% left and i cant buy another plan.
turns out i dont have to ASTRA FAST everything. ASTRA xhigh does the cool stuff. sol handles most of the rest.
might actually sleep early and run tomorrow morning.
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Blender quit unexpectedly.
should have a Report... to Astra
jacob coxon have me worried about ai. i take them seriously.
then i listen to travis kalanick on david senra. fucking relentless.
makes me believe we can still build good things in this world.
i want that spirit.
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Sat down for Senra .. @davidsenra
astra attempting to explain to me why my calves cramp up during marathons
