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Deep dives on trend analysis, architecture thinking, business opportunities & implementation decisions.
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Ben — CEO, Lychee Intelligence
CEO of Lychee Intelligence, leading enterprise AI product and solution development. Previously built a SaaS platform serving 3,000+ businesses. Technical focus: LLM, RAG, AI Agent, and voice technologies. Invited speaker at DigiAsia, Meet Taipei, and Martech Asia.
How the latest AI shifts impact enterprise operations and markets
Trade-offs in AI agents, toolchains, and system design
From tech news back to revenue, cost, and competitive edge
Actionable AI adoption paths and concrete next steps for your organization
Decoding how AI shifts impact your business
Agents, toolchains, and system architecture in practice
Deep reads on classic works and decision frameworks
Tracking emerging tech and analyzing real business impact
Product thinking, cost models, and go-to-market strategies for the AI era
Sam Altman said intelligence would be as cheap as tap water. Eighteen months later, business owners in Taiwan aren’t feeling lifted by the rising tide — they’re staring at a choice nobody prepared them for: AI can make one person do the work of three, but the other two have been with you for years.
Most AI founders start optimizing token costs before they even find product-market fit. But in an era where intelligence is becoming as cheap as electricity, penny-pinching on tokens might be killing your product experience.
A hands-on look at OpenClaw — an open-source self-hosted AI agent framework. This post walks through the full setup on an Ubuntu VM: installation, connecting to OpenAI Codex, and wiring up a Discord bot, plus observations on the architectural trade-offs and security isolation considerations.
When Google banned thousands of OpenClaw users without warning, the real battle wasn’t about server load. It was about who gets to own your digital memory. From the ban wave to a bidding war for talent to Meta’s $2B Manus acquisition — peeling back the layers of the AI agent gateway war.
A developer sent a voice message from Morocco. His AI agent figured out how to handle it on its own. That moment forced a complete recalibration — of what we think AI can do, what apps are for, and what privacy even means anymore.
An annotated reading guide to Ray Dalio’s latest essay ‘It’s Official: The World Order Has Broken Down,’ breaking down the Big Cycle framework, historical parallels to the 1930s, and what it means for the current US-China standoff.
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