Colin Charles

@sunnya97 Totally a wework thing. Office hours, 9am-6pm is usually when they run the air conditioning. The excuse is that it’s usually centrally controlled by the building

The WeWork I’m at in Shenzhen turns off the AC in the evenings and weekends 🤬 This is the the most bearish Chinese startups thing I’ve learned on this trip

@gdb This is very kind and I think you really want to expand it to the world! It can really be a boon to creativity

$100 in Codex credits for college student in U.S. and Canada:

It's crazy how productivity numbers for Malaysia have remained at RM1-1.5 billion per day, for sometime now.

@kevinxu easy, you want the credits. the so called networking you get at stanford, you can do here

would you rather have: - $200k stanford degree - $200k claude code credits

@thomaswanhoff nope, do not have it. it looks like the best netbook out there though. that said its not sold in malaysia yet. and you might get better mileage from safari, over chrome

@bytebot did you buy it already? I just need Chrome, no video editing..

The Apple MacBook Neo doing very well, in Singapore, only available for in-store pickup 14 April 2026. Apple might've just hit a goldmine in terms of expanding the user base (because let's be honest, once you're in the Apple ecosystem, you're unlikely to exit).

@thomaswanhoff same. second laptop, the one I take out to coffee shops

@bytebot Tempted as an iPad replacement (or second laptop for light travel)

maybe it was all the complaining on X, but it seems antigravity reset/refreshed quotas again. new personal use case: running it on Microsoft Windows

@thomaswanhoff It’s not just the news about the scam centers it’s what they’ve also done to the citizens of Korea, etc. it’s indentured servitude

I traveled to Korea, China and Vietnam recently. In every of those countries, people looked surprised when I told them I live in Cambodia. I know the word "dangerous" now in many languages...

@firstadopter UI skills. But 3.1 seems to mostly be disappointing compared to 3.0, and what’s currently available elsewhere. Generous quotas, antigravity offers claude models too. But nothing of great significance at this stage, it may get better next time around.

Does Gemini have anything competitive with Claude Code and Codex? I don’t see anyone talking about it.

@adam_tooze Strangely missing malaysia on that list. A lot happened

Great graphic of the spread of the Asian financial crisis from Bangkok in July 1997 to the rest of South East and East Asia … and Russia. Featured in today's Chartbook Top Links:

“Are any of these tokenmaxxers producing anything good? Or are they merely spinning their wheels, churning out useless code (and wasting valuable processing power) in an attempt to look busy?”

OpenClaw and Pi together are in the top 10 of all time software breakthroughs.

@Pauline_Cx It’s easy (export/import) but I have to ask - why? I’d do the migration the other way round

My goal this month is to migrate from ChatGPT to Claude. Is it complicated to transfer memory?

yeah, no. "openclaw is the wordpress moment for agents. the shopifys and substacks are coming!" this might be the typical take of "if you're in crypto pivot to ai", reality is there's lots a real software developer will find useful with openclaw. what really changes? when normal people realise they can use it usefully. not with a mac mini. when it's distilled enough in tools like claude code... and you can bet the new openai superapp. real talk: how many people have had a personal assistant? a travel agent? actually read the 4 hour workweek but is not a dropshipping bro (but understand the virtual assistant capability)? you're doing real (other) things (i.e. not selling an openclaw course), and then realising that you're buying your time back. this is the use case where things change rapidly. its the use case claude seems to understand now with code/cowork/the app in general. so far from dead product. maybe checkout the gartner hype cycle, as well...

@kevinsxu They didn’t use a Dyson! And red hairdryer - Ong Lai

Using red hairdryer no less to tamper with labels and serial numbers! This is so bad on so many levels.

Do things that don’t scale. Shame they didn’t use a Dyson hair dryer! It’s literally made in the region.

@kakashiii111 Validation! Congratulations. Malaysia?

Today, my work over the years received another validation. The DoJ, together with the FBI, announced charges against three executives of SuperMicro (SMCI) for Conspiracy to Violate the Export Control Reform Act. Since at least early 2024, SMCI's executives built a sophisticated, systematic scheme to illegally divert billions of dollars worth of high-performance AI servers containing restricted Nvidia GPUs to China, using a pass-through company in Southeast Asia to evade U.S. export controls. I was the first to call out this smuggling phenomenon in late 2023, when it was just beginning to pick up volume. I tracked the flow of chips across Southeast Asia, including their final destinations in China, and identified the key participants, SMCI among them, documenting how the sophisticated, systemic scheme operated. What the DoJ described in its charging documents is precisely what I wrote about numerous times: the mechanics of how it works, the routes the GPUs travel from origin to their final destination in China, and the volume of the smuggling, which I estimated at tens of billions of dollars worth of GPUs. SMCI is a significant catch, but it is far from the only player in this smuggling ecosystem. Others remain uncharged. What has been equally troubling is that many companies, including public companies and their executives, have had knowing or willful blindness to this phenomenon, looking the other way in order to hit sales targets and meet Wall Street estimates. Meanwhile, the smuggling network has evolved in parallel with one of the fastest datacenter buildouts in Southeast Asia, involving numerous subsidiaries, local companies, and datacenter operators who have absorbed every lesson from the smuggling playbook and are now working around the clock to build a datacenter empire across the SEA region.

Bets Singapore or Malaysia are shining in this scheme that involves hairdryers and smuggled GPUs. It’s so strange how it’s taken this long for the law to catch up

A codex improvement would be being able to enable /fast mid-task (maybe you got to get moving half way thru a task). So far we get: "■ '/fast' is disabled while a task is in progress."