The AI-Pilled Daily

The AI world keeps moving.I'm watching it for you

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News

What happened in AI today
Jul 21, 2026Hugging Face
The State of Simulation for Physical AI: An Overview
Jul 21, 2026Hacker News (AI)
AI makes programming differently difficult
Jul 21, 2026Hacker News (AI)
Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
Jul 21, 2026OpenAI
Introducing the ChatGPT for small business programOpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.
Jul 21, 2026Google DeepMind
Introducing Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash CyberWe’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.
Jul 21, 2026Hacker News (AI)
Claude Is Not a Compiler
Jul 21, 2026OpenAI
OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluationOpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.
Jul 21, 2026arXiv cs.AI
Rater State Bias in RLHF Preference Data: An Audit FrameworkWe identify a structured confound in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF). Pairwise preference labels are intended to reflect the compared outputs, but they may also reflect the rater's state during annotation. Under sustained stressful or distressing conditions, raters' preferences may shift over time. A…
Jul 21, 2026arXiv cs.AI
Design and Validation of a Lightweight 1D CNN for Affective Touch Classification in Soft Plush CompanionsSoft, sensorized companions offer a physically safe and emotionally intuitive interface for socially assistive technologies, yet their deformability and multichannel tactile sensing complicate the robust interpretation of human affect. This study presents a complete open-source MATLAB-based framework for the developme…
Jul 21, 2026arXiv cs.AI
Some Large Language Models Exhibit Consistent Risk AttitudesAs artificial intelligence systems are deployed in open-ended, high-stakes settings, a critical dimension remains unmeasured: how perceived risk is translated into action. We test whether large language models (LLMs) exhibit systematic and consistent risk attitudes under uncertainty. We introduce a cross-domain framew…
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Perspectives

Stimmen, die bleiben
Software 1.0 is hand-written code; Software 2.0 is the weights of neural networks; Software 3.0 is the prompt.
Andrej KarpathySoftware 3.0, May 2026
My takeA neat taxonomy, but it understates the conversion cost. Translating an SOP into a prompt is far harder than translating pseudocode into code — what you have to capture is tacit knowledge, not explicit logic.
The most durable skill of this era is learning anything you want to learn.
Naval RavikantAlmanack, 2020
My takeTrue ten years ago, even truer today. When tools have a half-life of 18 months, the transferable meta-skills are where the real compounding happens.
§ 04

Plans

In Arbeit

Carol's Website

Built this site in two days with Claude Code — a full idea-to-product exercise. You're looking at it.

Shipped · 2026

The Big Inventory of AI Products

A taxonomy I built in late 2025. Quietly bookmarked by a handful of friends since.

Shipped · 2025

AI Product Weekly

A curated weekly note: things I noticed, things I changed my mind on, things worth re-reading.

In Progress

Digital Twin Agent v2

Upgrading from system-prompt context to RAG + conversation history. Make the twin actually answer for me.

Exploring
§ 05

About

Über dieses Quartal

Tsinghua undergrad · AI PM @ major tech co · 100M+ user product growth · AI-pilled

I'm Carol. By day I build AI products; by night I write down the people, ideas and observations I want to keep. This isn't a blog — it's closer to an AI-pilled daily, kept open to whoever finds it useful.

AI gives us more information and less judgement. So this daily walks through it for you, then keeps the part I actually wanted to say after reading it. Each piece should be worth reading twice.

If you're also thinking about AI in relation to product, expression, or the shape of your life, drop a contact — or just talk to my digital twin.