Monthly Notes

June 2025 Thought Notes June 2025 Thought Notes Boundaries of Rejection: Finding Balance in Social Interactions June 2nd, 2025 - 06:28:12 In a Korean fried chicken restaurant, unexpectedly surrounded by Chinese people. The meal sets were all for two people, so I ordered two combo meals for myself. When ordering, I asked if I could pay by card, wanting to avoid using cash as I felt my cash wasn’t quite enough. ...

May 2025 Thought Notes AI-Era Independent Development: Frontend as the Main Battlefield for Value Delivery May 1, 2025 - 10:22:06 In the AI era, the battlefield of independent development is shifting toward the frontend. The transformation is evident: Backend Simplification: AI models turn core services into universal capabilities, lowering technical barriers in backend development. SaaS and PaaS providers encapsulate vast foundational capabilities that developers can directly invoke. Frontend as Value Delivery Nexus: The frontend is closest to users, making it easier to focus on MVP (Minimum Viable Product) and single-person product loops. Using a tech stack like Next.js / Tailwind / Firebase / Vercel enables full-stack delivery and rapid validation of the “function → value → growth” chain. From “Building” to “Integration”: Databases, permissions, storage, and model calls are becoming platformized (such as Supabase, LangChain, Replicate). Independent developers no longer need to write backend from scratch—they just need to “integrate.” AI decouples “intelligence” from the backend, making the frontend the true battlefield where users are closest, changes are most significant, and value is most concentrated. ...

April 2025 Thought Notes Learning & Growth Projects & Work Challenges & Solutions Insights & Reflections Goals & Planning Books, Articles & Resources Quotes & Inspiration Next Month’s Focus

March 2025 Thought Notes Learning & Growth Projects & Work Challenges & Solutions Insights & Reflections Goals & Planning Books, Articles & Resources Quotes & Inspiration Next Month’s Focus

Agent Identity: From Locke to OpenClaw On the engineering practice and philosophical framework of AI agent identity continuity 0. Introduction: An Engineering Problem Misdiagnosed as Philosophy The cost of agent amnesia is systematically underestimated. Not because users are annoyed—though they are. But because statelessness breaks the foundation of the trust account. Every session, the agent starts from zero. It doesn’t know who you are, why you got angry last time, whether that promise from three months ago was kept. From an economics perspective, it’s like rebuilding your credit score for every transaction—transaction costs explode, and there’s no learning accumulation. ...