https://ryrenz.com/tags/ai/ Recent content in AI on David Zhang | AI Engineering, Careers & Industry Deep-Dives Hugo -- 0.155.3 en-US Mon, 18 May 2026 15:30:00 -0400 https://ryrenz.com/ai/ai-novel-money-makers/ Mon, 18 May 2026 15:30:00 -0400 https://ryrenz.com/ai/ai-novel-money-makers/ Rie Kudan won the Akutagawa Prize, Joe Vasicek cut his book cycle from 2 years to 14 days, Leanne Leeds ships 12-15 books a year at a 4.5-star Amazon average, and Hachette pulled a novel after Pangram clocked it at 78.4% AI-generated. The Sudowrite / NovelCrafter / Claude + Scrivener stack is now the Western mainstream, and the Chinese-language world has nothing equivalent. https://ryrenz.com/ai/harness-engineering-ai-efficiency/ Fri, 15 May 2026 14:07:23 -0400 https://ryrenz.com/ai/harness-engineering-ai-efficiency/ Raw models are no longer enough for serious engineering work. What actually separates mediocre results from great ones is the Harness built around the model: context management, tool execution, task orchestration, feedback loops, and architectural guardrails. https://ryrenz.com/career/enterprise-ai-transformation-layoffs/ Sun, 10 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400 https://ryrenz.com/career/enterprise-ai-transformation-layoffs/ Buying AI tools and rolling out company-wide training does not equal AI transformation. Real change means replacing human-to-human collaboration with human-plus-agent workflows. That shift hits headcount first, then rewrites the survival rules for employees. https://ryrenz.com/ai/industrial-grade-skill-five-principles/ Sun, 03 May 2026 23:18:42 -0400 https://ryrenz.com/ai/industrial-grade-skill-five-principles/ A Skill isn’t a longer prompt — it’s a triggerable, executable, testable, maintainable workflow. From what a Skill actually is, to on-demand loading, tool boundaries, model selection, progressive disclosure, validation loops, and how to share it with other people — the full playbook for writing industrial-grade Skills. https://ryrenz.com/tech/world-model-replaces-chatbot/ Sat, 25 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400 https://ryrenz.com/tech/world-model-replaces-chatbot/ Three years in, models are 100x more capable. Why is AI still just a chat box? The chat box is the Nokia of the AI era. From chatbots to agents to wearables plus world models — here’s the next decade of AI product evolution. https://ryrenz.com/career/resume-is-dead-ai-job-hunting/ Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400 https://ryrenz.com/career/resume-is-dead-ai-job-hunting/ Sending 100 resumes used to get you 20-30 interviews. Now 200 gets you almost nothing. You didn’t get worse — the rules changed. Mass-applying is dead. The new job hunt is a trust competition. https://ryrenz.com/industry/smart-glasses-next-trillion-market/ Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:00:00 -0400 https://ryrenz.com/industry/smart-glasses-next-trillion-market/ Meta sold 7 million smart glasses last year. In 2026, Apple, Google, and Samsung are all entering the space. AI is native from day one, and an entirely new interaction paradigm is being defined. This isn’t a prediction — it’s already happening. https://ryrenz.com/ai/recommended-mcp-servers/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:38:45 -0500 https://ryrenz.com/ai/recommended-mcp-servers/ Explores the limitations of using LLMs as simple chatbots and introduces the Model-Context-Protocol (MCP), detailing four essential tools that provide context, planning, and memory to transform AI into a powerful, autonomous engineering partner. https://ryrenz.com/ai/claude-code-tools-mcp-skills/ Fri, 20 Feb 2026 02:13:42 -0500 https://ryrenz.com/ai/claude-code-tools-mcp-skills/ Clarifies the distinction between Tools (primitive functions), Skills (complex workflows), and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in agentic AI, providing an architectural framework for developers to choose the right abstraction for their use case. https://ryrenz.com/ai/openclaw-memory-system-guide/ Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:03:38 -0500 https://ryrenz.com/ai/openclaw-memory-system-guide/ Provides a practical guide to implementing a persistent memory system for AI coding agents, advocating for a simplified, file-based approach with a manual ‘/save’ command to capture session context, delivering most of the value with minimal complexity. https://ryrenz.com/ai/why-openclaw-went-viral/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:14:42 -0500 https://ryrenz.com/ai/why-openclaw-went-viral/ Analyzes the viral success of OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant that operates locally with OS-level execution, exploring its key innovations like proactive tasks and a decentralized skill ecosystem, while also highlighting its significant security implications.