Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

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What Teacher 93 said is indeed a real situation. In fact, this situation is not just among students. This

What Teacher 93 said is indeed a real situation. In fact, this situation is not just among students. This situation is also very common in the workplace, especially...

April 27, 2026 · 2 min read

What Teacher 93 said is indeed a real situation. In fact, this situation is not just among students. This situation is also very common in the workplace, especially among practitioners in the software industry. I have also observed many phenomena. Even if I am in an AI company or a company in the high-tech industry, there are still many people who are not really interested in AI evolution at all. Long-term domestication in the workplace has made most people become tool people and hollowed out. The anchor point of salary is tied to self-limitation. These factors have hindered the improvement of many people's subjective initiative as individuals. Only after get off work or when there is a crisis, they can have some awareness of themselves as individuals. So I also very much support the initiative of Teacher

  • I am trying my best to help some friends who are trying to use AI tools to iterate themselves. I think the gap will definitely be more than five times in the future, and it should be more than ten times. A month ago, I was still using cc ➕banana, but now a set of codex can handle most of my tasks, and the overall payment has actually dropped, and I am more focused. A month ago, I could not imagine that I could have an open source project with 4k+ stars. As long as I continue to iterate, looking back, I have already passed the mountain!

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