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Enterprise Technology & Applied AI
I work at the intersection of enterprise operations, digital platforms, and applied AI — building technology capabilities that are useful, scalable, and operationally real.
Selected Notes


Loop Engineering and the Future Evolution of AI Engineering
There is a new phrase catching wind in the AI community: loop engineering. It’s best explained when compared to the first generation of large language models, the interaction was simple: User asks a question -> Model gives an answer The focus was on writing better prompts. If the answer was not good, we adjusted the prompt. We called it prompt engineering. But agentic AI works differently. We no longer ask the AI only to answer a question. We ask it to complete an objective.
Jun 26


Do we still need LangChain? Making sense of the AI stack as models get smarter
I was reading a post in Medium.com talking about evolution of AI framework and one of the questions it raises is: "If the models are this capable now, and we have MCP and Skills, do we still need frameworks like LangChain?" I think this is an interesting question. Frameworks come and go, most of time they die down in usage before we realise. I felt it's a great opportunity for me myself to reflect on this. My experience recently tells me that LangChain is no longer the automa
Jun 13


Nvidia’s New Chips Aren't Replacing the Cloud—They’re Just Triage
I am sure many of my friends have seen Jensen Huang's announcement at Computex 2026 of RTX Spark, an Arm-based system combining a Grace CPU, Blackwell GPU, and up to 128GB of unified memory capable of delivering an astonishing 1 petaflop of AI compute. Predictably, the conversation immediately centered around new normal: Human -> Application -> OS -> CPU vs. Human -> Agent -> Tools -> OS -> RTX But I believe such superficial take is far from what Jensen's really building up.
Jun 2


Where the Money Goes in AI: The Value Chain, the Bottlenecks, and the Next Investment Window
As a casual investor, I feel like we’re all drowning in AI information overload right now. One day a stock skyrockets by double digits; the next, another loses half its value. Honestly, I can’t remember the last time the market was this exciting. Driven by sheer curiosity, I decided to look at the AI value chain systematically—partly to make sense of what we're actually investing in, and partly to see what the future holds. I’m definitely no expert, so think of this as just a
May 30


I Went There to Judge. I Came Back a Little Shaken.
I went into the National AI Student Challenge thinking of it as a kind of national service. Not the big heroic kind. More the quiet Singaporean version: show up, do your part, contribute back, encourage some students, sit through a few demos, give fair scores, maybe say something useful at the end. I did not go in expecting to be surprised. That was my mistake. The challenge problem from Certis was not an easy one. It was not “build a chatbot” or “make a dashboard”. The stude
May 24


The Hollowing of the Corporate Pyramid: What Tech Layoffs Are Really Saying
I started thinking seriously about this because someone close to me works at Meta. They weren't affected by the recent rounds of layoffs. Their job is safe, at least for now. But over the past year, I've been hearing stories from the inside—not necessarily about people losing jobs, but about the atmosphere that follows. The uncertainty. The constant restructurings. Teams being merged, roles being redefined, managers disappearing, priorities shifting overnight. Even when you'r
May 21


My Dog's $1,500 Cough: What Pet Healthcare Taught Me About Broken Markets
A few weeks ago, my dog developed a frightening combination of symptoms: bloody stool, vomiting, and a persistent dry cough. Like most pet owners, I panicked. I rushed her to a local veterinary clinic. The consultation quickly escalated into X-rays, blood tests, and a series of diagnostic procedures. The bill came to roughly $800. The diagnosis was tentative—possibly food poisoning—and we were sent home with a small pharmacy's worth of medication: anti-nausea drugs, probiotic
May 14


The AI "Impossible" Trinity: Why It Is Hard to Be Versatile, Fast, and Cheap at the Same Time
This post took me almost a week to finish, partly because the idea kept expanding as I wrote. It started with a simple request from my chairman: could we build an OpenClaw-style personal assistant? I have been playing with OpenClaw since November 2025, back when it had just been announced and was still changing quickly — not only in its technology, but even in its name and positioning. More recently, NVIDIA’s announcement of NemoClaw, an enterprise version of OpenClaw, pushed
May 9


This Time is Different?
I keep having this thought that I honestly wish I could shake off. We keep talking about AI as if it is just another industrial revolution. Like steam engines. Like electricity. Like computers. Like the internet. Every time, some jobs disappeared, new jobs came, and somehow society moved on. That has been the comforting story. But I am no longer sure that story works this time. Because this time, I don’t think we are just building better tools. With the rapid advancement and
May 3


Welcome to the 1920s (Again): Why History is on Replay
The news lately has been depressing. Hell, it has been depressing for, I guess, too long. Mark Twain supposedly said, "History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." If you look at the geopolitical and economic macro-trends of the world right now, the early 21st century feels like a full-blown cover song of the early 20th century. Let's look at the scoreboard. 1. The Global Plagues A century ago, the Spanish Flu brought the world to a grinding halt, exposing the fragili
May 2


From Model Wars to Platform Wars: The Evolution of the AI Value Chain
When ChatGPT was released in late 2022, the AI industry appeared deceptively simple. The winners would be the companies that built the most intelligent models. OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and others entered an intense race to push the frontier of artificial intelligence. Model quality became the primary differentiator. Every benchmark mattered. Every improvement in reasoning, coding, multimodal understanding, and context length was celebrated as a competitive advantage.
Apr 29


Your AI Agent Has an Org Chart: Don't Think Agentic Design Patterns, Think Organizational Design.
Most articles about agentic AI read like a medical textbook on cellular biology. They explain the synapses, the nervous system, and the metabolic pathways: ReAct loops, reflection, tool calling, routing, planning, and multi-agent orchestration. Useful, yes. But if you are a chief medical officer running a busy hospital, your first question isn't “How do the individual neurons fire?” Your first question is: Do we need a rapid-response triage team, a methodical surgical unit, o
Apr 11
"Consumer AI can be helpful; enterprise AI must be accountable. The gap is not just model quality — it is governance, workflow integration, data reliability, auditability, and adoption."
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