Bruce.Y

The Best Gift

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

These past few days, I’ve been anxious about one thing: with AI advancing so quickly, will my son lose his footing in the future?

I kept telling myself I had to catch this wave and build something as fast as possible, so he could have something reliable to lean on.

But that urgency made me constantly tense. My body felt worse, and my mental state kept declining.

Last night before sleep, I finally understood something: the best gift I can give my son is not money earned by burning my health, but a healthy, joyful father who can stay with him as he grows up.

At 39

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today is my 39th birthday. Based on the average life expectancy of Chinese men, I’m already in the second half of life. My parents are alive and in good health. I have a warm family, and a lovely wife and son. I have a good home, and after covering the mortgage, I still have savings left.

But my physical condition is not very good. I have various minor health issues, and the biggest problem is anxiety. My inner world is not at peace, and I easily fall into anxiety. Even taking a nap is difficult — I sleep for a while, then wake up, and once I wake up, my whole body feels tight.

Be a Big-P Person, Be Brave

Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Recently, the sharp drop in the Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index has left me deeply worried, to the point that it even delayed my product work.

And when I look back at the Spring Festival period, I remember how I got tangled up over someone keeping a dog in the courtyard of my mother-in-law’s residential community, and slipped into severe anxiety again.

It’s honestly a bit ridiculous. The Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski traveled through dozens of countries in his lifetime and witnessed countless wars and conflicts. Reading his books recently, I can’t help but feel that I’ve been living too narrowly.

A Great Claude Code Workflow

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I came across a great post today:

The Workflow in One Sentence Read deeply, write a plan, annotate the plan until it’s right, then let Claude execute the whole thing without stopping, checking types along the way.

39 — The Second Half of Life

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

1. Choose Your Battle

Naval says: don’t have too many desires. What is a desire? A desire is a contract you sign to be unhappy until it is fulfilled.

It’s okay to have desires, but not too many. Choose the one you want most, and let the rest go.

But don’t have too many. Don’t pick them up unconsciously. Don’t pick them up randomly. Don’t have thousands of them. My coffee’s too cold, doesn’t taste quite right. I’m not sitting perfectly. Oh, I wish it was warmer. You know. My dog, you know, pooped in the lawn, I don’t like that. Whatever it is. Pick your one overwhelming desire. It’s okay to suffer over that one, but on all the others, do you want to let them go so you can be calm and peaceful and relaxed? And then you’ll perform a better job.

From now on, my primary battlefield will shift away from my current job to two new arenas: strengthening my body and mind, and creating valuable products.

andrej karpathy on AI era software/app

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Today I listened to Lenny’s conversation with Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code. As one of the highest-output programmers from companies like Meta and Instagram, he said he has not personally written or manually edited code for an entire year — everything has been written with Claude Code — and he is still one of the highest-output programmers. That is shocking.

What kind of change will this bring to the software industry and to the world? Will the App Store-dominated app model still define the future? Once everyone can write code, software products and services will almost certainly explode in quantity, and their value and price will likely go down. So for those of us in the industry, what should we do to avoid missing this era?

The 10,000x Leverage: From Selling Time to Shipping Products

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I started university in 2005 and finished my master’s degree in 2012. In 2007, the first iPhone arrived, marking the “iPhone Moment” of the mobile internet. I lived through that entire era, yet unlike peers such as Guo Yu, Sofish, 61, Kevin Zhou, or Tualatrix, I didn’t reach financial freedom or build a company with its own assets. Now that the AI era has arrived, I refuse to be a bystander again.

The 10,000x Leverage: From Selling Time to Shipping Products

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:30:00 +0800

I’m Bruce.Y — a birder 🐦, developer, and product manager. I love the poetry of Misuzu Kaneko and Stoic philosophy. I’m a husband and father to a six-year-old son 👨‍👩‍👦.

OpenClaw, Pi, and the 10,000x Gap

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The real AI gap isn’t model quality — it’s extraction depth. Top builders can extract 10,000x value, while most teams only get 5x. That gap is where the biggest opportunities live.

Two Pi Extensions: pi-ext-pomo and pi-ext-engl

Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

I built two Pi extensions: pi-ext-pomo and pi-ext-engl.

Red-flanked Bluetail at Jiangyangfan

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I photographed this Red-flanked Bluetail at Jiangyangfan. The light was perfect that morning, and in the first sunlight its plumage looked almost iridescent—absolutely beautiful.

Autumn on Wufeng Island

Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000

An autumn landscape on Wufeng Island. The golden rice fields were still unharvested, and the distant hills and trees formed five layers of color from bottom to top.

Male Crested Bunting in Yangcun

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

A male Crested Bunting I photographed on a field ridge in Yangcun. Strikingly beautiful.