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I share my personal, unfiltered thoughts on Crypto, AI, NFTs, and Tech.

Deep Dives

The AI Infrastructure Bottleneck Index

Apr 9, 2026

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3 min read

The AI Infrastructure Bottleneck Index

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Secret Agent

Secret Agent #41: The Hidden Fragility Behind AI Agents

Apr 7, 2026

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7 min read

Secret Agent #41: The Hidden Fragility Behind AI Agents

Poisoned training data, Claude’s leaked orchestration layer, and the simple agents quietly making real money.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #40: The Breaking Point

Mar 30, 2026

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13 min read

Secret Agent #40: The Breaking Point

INSIDE: A new AGI benchmark resets the gap and agents start to get gaslit.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Secret Agent

Secret Agent #39: The New Ratio

Mar 23, 2026

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14 min read

Secret Agent #39: The New Ratio

INSIDE: 100 agents per human and one costly suggestion breaks production.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #38: Autonomous Conflict

Mar 16, 2026

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15 min read

Secret Agent #38: Autonomous Conflict

INSIDE: AI breaches McKinsey and accelerates its own research.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #37: War Replay

Mar 9, 2026

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14 min read

Secret Agent #37: War Replay

INSIDE: Agents track conflicts and build tiny computers.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #36: Agent-Resumé

Mar 2, 2026

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15 min read

Secret Agent #36: Agent-Resumé

INSIDE: Agents apply for jobs and wipe out inboxes.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #35: The Ascent

Feb 23, 2026

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16 min read

Secret Agent #35: The Ascent

INSIDE: Agents design spacecrafts and prove new mathematics.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Field Notes

The AI Agent Handbook is Live

Feb 19, 2026

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5 min read

The AI Agent Handbook is Live

A quick primer on AI agents.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Secret Agent

Secret Agent #34: Escalation Phase

Feb 16, 2026

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16 min read

Secret Agent #34: Escalation Phase

INSIDE: Agents write smear campaigns and enter live military operations.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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Secret Agent #33: The Agent’s View

Feb 9, 2026

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13 min read

Secret Agent #33: The Agent’s View

This week humans worked for agents, trained them in dream worlds, and still can't identify them.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Field Notes

The Closed Loop Advantage in AI

Feb 5, 2026

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13 min read

The Closed Loop Advantage in AI

Why the most powerful AI companies might not be the ones with the best models.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Secret Agent

Secret Agent #32: OpenClaw & Moltbook

Feb 2, 2026

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13 min read

Secret Agent #32: OpenClaw & Moltbook

INSIDE: A personal AI melts into the real world and agents start plotting against

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

The Robotics Series

The Dexterity Stack: Why Robots Lose to Towels

Jan 28, 2026

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30 min read

The Dexterity Stack: Why Robots Lose to Towels

Intelligence lives at the point of contact.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Secret Agent

Secret Agent #31: Agent Democracy

Jan 26, 2026

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12 min read

Secret Agent #31: Agent Democracy

INSIDE: Agent swarms shape elections and white-collar work meets its intern.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Secret Agent

Agent Angle #30: Kill Switch

Jan 19, 2026

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13 min read

Agent Angle #30: Kill Switch

INSIDE: Agents enter war rooms and and maps get taught to reason.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Secret Agent

Agent Angle #29: The Edge Case

Jan 12, 2026

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13 min read

Agent Angle #29: The Edge Case

INSIDE: An agent out-iterates 800 humans and The Turing Test gets a revamp.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Secret Agent

The Agent Angle #28: Authority Drift

Jan 5, 2026

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13 min read

The Agent Angle #28: Authority Drift

INSIDE: An agent fires a coworker and traffic enforcement moves onto a helmet.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Daily AI Briefing

README.ai: 2 Jan 2025

Jan 3, 2026

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4 min read

README.ai: 2 Jan 2025

All you need to know on AI in 5 minutes

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Daily AI Briefing

README.ai: 30 Dec 2025

Dec 31, 2025

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4 min read

README.ai: 30 Dec 2025

All you need to know on AI in 5 minutes

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Deep Dives

The 2026 AI Playbook

Dec 30, 2025

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19 min read

The 2026 AI Playbook

A distilled roadmap from 1,436+ frontier conversations by top investors and builders.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Secret Agent

The Agent Angle #27: The Christmas Heist

Dec 29, 2025

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13 min read

The Agent Angle #27: The Christmas Heist

INSIDE: The Grinch hacks agents and and the moment shopping leaves Amazon.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Daily AI Briefing

README.ai: 27 Dec 2025

Dec 27, 2025

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4 min read

README.ai: 27 Dec 2025

All you need to know on AI in 5 minutes

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

Daily AI Briefing

README.ai: 23 Dec 2025

Dec 24, 2025

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4 min read

README.ai: 23 Dec 2025

All you need to know on AI in 5 minutes

Teng Yan
Teng Yan

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The Agent Angle #26: The Gullible

Dec 22, 2025

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14 min read

The Agent Angle #26: The Gullible

INSIDE: A vending machine breaks by social engineering and SaaS meets its match.

Teng Yan
Teng Yan
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