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AI Levels the Playing Field in Legal Disputes — Or Does It Just Hand Better Weapons to the Powerful?
I used AI to help my friend write a labor arbitration defense. It worked. Then I realized something uncomfortable about who benefits most when both sides in a legal dispute have access to the same tools.
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I Let AI Migrate My WordPress Site to Hostinger. It Went Horribly Wrong.
I thought migrating WordPress to Hostinger would take an hour. Instead: a 460MB backup that maxed out my disk quota, three failed FTP attempts, a PHP upload limit, broken JavaScript, and a lazy-loading plugin. AI helped me through all of it — eventually.
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I Asked 7 AIs How to Make My Wife Feel Loved on Our 18th Anniversary
I’m not naturally good at romantic gestures. So when our 18th anniversary arrived with no plan, I asked seven AIs what I should do. What they agreed on surprised me.
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I Rewrote My Desk Break Timer 30+ Times. It Still Has One User: Me.
One ordinary person’s honest look at building a gamified standup reminder through 30+ versions, zero users (except himself), and why that’s not a reason to stop.
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My Friend’s Company Got Hacked: How AI Cut 14-Server Triage from 14 Hours to 30 Minutes
My friend Leo called at midnight — 14 servers down, DDoS attack, suspected webshells. Manual Linux incident response was taking 1 hour per machine. AI-generated triage scripts cut it to 2 minutes per machine, 30 minutes total. Here’s exactly what he ran.
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It Took an AI to Show Me My Leverage Wasn’t Making Me Any Money — and I Overspent 40% on Opus5 Tokens Writing It
I have used margin in my brokerage account, on and off, for about three years. My reasoning was the sentence every retail investor has heard: moderate leverage increases returns. I never checked it. Not once. I checked the companies I bought — cash flow, margins, competitive position, all of it. But the leverage sitting underneath those…
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We Asked AI to Judge Our Grocery Fight. It Didn’t Side With Either of Us.
I waited an hour at a Chinese supermarket for 8pm discounts. My wife was upset. I fed the photos to an AI expecting it to prove I was right. It did the math — but then it pointed out the question I’d actually missed.
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From 30MB of Word Files to a 400KB App: How AI Changed My Son’s English Study
China’s college entrance exam — the Gaokao — is taken by 12 million students every year. One exam. One day. Every major life decision that follows. My son is one of those 12 million. Last month I found him at his desk at 11pm, notebook open, writing the letter C in a column of 20…
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The SEO Strategy Most AI Tool Builders Ignore: GitHub Awesome Lists
I discovered GitHub Awesome Lists as an SEO strategy. Here is what actually happened after 42 pull requests: 2 merged, 9 rejected (5 by the same person), 31 still pending.
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AI Didn’t Replace My Voice. It Finally Let the World Hear It.
A disabled Chinese woman sews shoe insoles with her mouth to feed her daughters. One afternoon, I used AI to make sure the world could hear her story.
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I Asked 7 AI Models Which Chinese AI Stock They’d Hold for 3 Years. The Results Were 6-1.
I made a mistake this morning. Or did I? At market open, I bought 100 shares of Zhongji Innolight (300308) at ¥920. Within two hours, it had dropped to ¥847. I was down ¥7,300 — roughly 8% — before lunch. This is Part 2 of an ongoing series. Part 1: Before Buying Innolight, I Asked…
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I Asked 4 AIs Which One Lies the Most. They Named Names.
I asked four AI models the same question. Not “which AI is best.” Not “which AI do you recommend.” I asked: which AI lies the most — including yourself? I expected deflection. Corporate hedging. Careful non-answers about how “all models have limitations.” Instead, they named names. Including their own. The Question I Asked All Four…
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I Asked Each AI How to Squeeze the Most Out of Its Rival
I paid $480 a year for Claude Pro and ChatGPT Plus. I was pretty sure I was only getting about 30% of the value. So I ran a simple experiment: I asked each AI how to squeeze the most out of the other one. I expected both to quietly promote themselves. Instead, one of them…
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Why Medium and WeChat Reward Completely Different Writers
WeChat gave me fewer than 200 reads per article. Medium writers earn $10–$500 per story. The gap is not just about money — it is about what each platform is built to reward. Here is the comparison nobody in China is making.
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I Paid ¥1,000 for an AI Content Course. Here’s What I Got. (Failed Experiments #2)
I paid ¥1,000 for an online AI content course run by a WeChat influencer who promised to make me rich. Here is exactly what happened — and why that ¥1,000 now buys something much more useful.
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Why My First Side Project Got Zero Visitors (And What Every Indie Hacker Can Learn From It)
I spent months building it. I believed people would find it, buy from it, tell their friends about it. They didn’t. Nobody did. For three years. Looking back, the biggest mistake wasn’t the product. It wasn’t the price, the design, or even the market. It was something more fundamental — and more common than most…
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Why Investors Keep the Wrong Stocks Too Long — and the Mental Model I Use to Stop (Investor Psychology #1)
⏱️ Proof of writing date: This article was written and published on July 28, 2026 — the same day Innolight (300308) dropped 16%.View Wayback Machine archive → I once held a stock for five years — not because it was still the best investment, but because it had become my investment. The stock was Kanste,…
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Before Buying Innolight (300308), I Asked 5 AI Models the Same Four Questions
⏱️ Proof of writing date: This article was written and published on July 28, 2026 — the same day Innolight (300308) dropped 16% on the A-share market.View Wayback Machine archive → Breaking news as I write this: Zhongji Innolight just completed a Hong Kong IPO, raising $6.81 billion — Asia’s second-largest listing of 2026. The…
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The Apartment Where I Grew Up Has Been Abandoned for 20 Years. AI Brought It Back to Life.
A few weeks ago, a relative sent me a photo on WeChat. They had visited the place where I grew up — a five-story brick building about 55 years old. I hadn’t been back in years. The message came with three words: “It’s all gone.” I looked at the photo for a long time. This…
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9 AIs vs. China’s Biggest-Ever Tech IPO: The Prediction Showdown
I won 1,000 shares of CXMT (688825) via IPO lottery — China’s #3 largest IPO ever. Then I gave 9 AI systems the same data and the same 5 questions. They all said something different.