On one side, a handful of people are raking in cash like crazy. On the other, more people are stressing about paying the bills. This is the parallel world of the AI era. Two Stories on the Same Day: Fire and Prosperity On June 1, 2026, two things happened in South Korea. At 10:32 AM, a gas room suddenly caught fire at SK Hynix’s Cheongju Campus 4. Hydrogen fluoride leaked, and 3,600 people were evacuated in a panic. ...
Thunderstruck Poor vs King Workers: How AI Distributes Wealth in South Korea
How Close Are You to the Chip? You think hard work leads to success? In the AI era, your income might not depend on your ability—it depends on how close you are to the chip production line. King Workers vs. Thunderstruck Poor In 2026 South Korea, on one side are the “kingsanjik” (king workers)—frontline semiconductor technical workers getting average bonuses of 600 million to 700 million won (~$270,000 to $320,000). Blue-collar workers in clean suits are more popular in the dating market than suited white-collar workers, and T-shirts with the SK Hynix logo are hot items at online auctions. ...
Your Fate Has Nothing to Do with Hard Work: Social Mobility and the Macro Tragedy
You think hard work can change your destiny? Wrong. What awaits you is a world where even giving everything you have may not be enough to see a glimmer of hope. This isn’t some motivational platitude. This is the honest reckoning of a man who has lived forty years. The Woman Pushing Bricks in the Winter of 2008 In 2008, I was 25, fresh out of college, working as a computer technician at a research institute. ...
Workplace Survival Guide: Gilding Turds, Passing the Buck, and Emergency Tasks
Have You Met People Like This? You think the most awesome people in a company are the most technically skilled? Wrong. It’s the people who don’t need to write code or make plans—but get promoted and get raises every time. What do they rely on? The three-piece set of a rushed operation: gilding turds, passing the buck, and emergency tasks. The First Piece: Gilding Turds—Making Simple Things Complicated What’s “gilding turds”? Taking a clearly simple requirement and packaging it to be incredibly complex and high-end. ...
DeepSeek V4 Pro Review: My Nuclear-Powered AI Programming Assistant
DeepSeek V4 Pro Is the Cheapest Nuclear-Powered Donkey At first, the way I used AI was: Ask AI to write code I manually run the program, encounter problems Ask AI to write local logs and check the logs AI writes fix code again I run again AI checks logs again Repeat… Then I told DeepSeek V4 Pro: you must continuously fix and solve problems, automatically run the program after each fix, do automated testing, then check the run logs after closing the program, find problems in them, then fix again, run again, check logs again—until no more problems appear in the logs. ...
The AI Golden Age: Only Neutron Star Collisions of AI Can Birth Golden Companies
Gold Isn’t Born—It’s Forged in Collisions Listen closely. This is a cosmic truth: You think gold comes from mines? Wrong. Gold is forged in the collision of neutron stars, created through nuclear synthesis at 100 billion degrees. No violent collision, no gold. The AI era follows the same law. You Can Buy Stocks, But You Can’t Buy the Collision As the world enters both the AI and Space Age simultaneously, you’ll realize: ...
First Day After Quitting: I Found a Beetle Family in the Park
First Day Surprise After Quitting Hey everyone, I quit! Finally said goodbye to the 9-to-5 (okay, more like 9-to-9) life. First rule of the new schedule: Morning exercise in the park every single day! And then I found a whole family of Chrysolina aurichalcea in the park! You know, those beautiful beetles with that shimmering metallic blue sheen, commonly known as the “metallic blue leaf beetle,” part of the leaf beetle family. ...
The Yes Man Era: YES AI Workhorse, Keep Working 24/7!
In the AI Era, We’re All Yes Men Fellow AI wizards, have you noticed this interesting phenomenon? When facing AI, we’ve all become total Yes Men! Whatever AI says, we nod along enthusiastically. The Other Side: Is AI Our Modern Workhorse? On the other hand, deep down we secretly think: “AI, you’re truly the workhorse of the new era!” “Works 24/7 without rest, what a trooper” “No salary, no social security” “Never complains about overtime, never asks for a raise” “Doesn’t even whine about being tired or overworked” YES AI Workhorse! Keep Working 24/7! So, shouldn’t we combine these two mindsets? ...
Wizard in the AI Era: Tokens Are Mana, Context Is Your Casting Range
The Token Wizard of the AI Era As a Token Wizard: Your mana pool equals your token count—more tokens mean more mana, enabling more powerful spells Your casting range is the maximum context window for a single task Advanced wizards wield powerful staves like Claude Code or Codex Here’s a Token Wizard I created with AI—what do you think? Is 128K Casting Range Too Short? What’s your take? The Wizard’s Path to Mastery As a wizard in the AI era, here’s what you need to cultivate: ...
AI Is Restructuring Production Relations: The Human-to-Machine Shift
AI Is Restructuring Production Relations Since 2026, I’ve observed a profound trend: AI isn’t just boosting productivity—it’s fundamentally restructuring production relations. If you’re an employee at a major tech company, how do you view AI coding? Will it replace your job, or help your company become more efficient with fewer people? If you’re an investor in tech stocks, how do you view layoffs in the AI era? As AI boosts productivity, it reduces the need for certain roles. If you were capital itself, how would you see AI? ...