Notes, essays, and opinions on AI, technology, business, and the occasional aside.https://notes.qiuyue.dev/en-ushttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/wallet-is-not-a-conscience/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/wallet-is-not-a-conscience/Cloudflare Wallets can link an agent payment to an account and constrain how it spends. A separate question remains: was an in-bounds purchase actually wanted?Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/ai-native-game-is-a-test/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/ai-native-game-is-a-test/"AI-native game" has one honest definition: pull the model out and see if play survives. Passing that test says nothing about whether the result has any taste.Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/taste-is-a-bet/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/taste-is-a-bet/I said taste was judgment renamed. Trying to pull the two words apart, I found I could — and the difference is what the moat argument keeps hiding.Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/taste-is-judgment/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/taste-is-judgment/Everyone repeats that taste is the moat in the AI era, but almost nobody says what taste is in a given job. It's domain judgment, renamed.Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/agent-prs-need-traffic-control/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/agent-prs-need-traffic-control/When several coding agents work at once, the hard part is deciding what each one should change, and in what order.Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/codebase-maps-are-agent-interfaces/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/codebase-maps-are-agent-interfaces/Coding agents need more than context; they need codebases that make the right place to work clear.Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/pull-requests-are-knowledge-imports/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/pull-requests-are-knowledge-imports/When agents make patches cheap, review has to move from accepting code to absorbing knowledge.Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/agent-coordination-debt/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/agent-coordination-debt/AI agents make individual output cheaper before they make organizations better at deciding what should exist.Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/helpful-agents-authorization-bug/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/helpful-agents-authorization-bug/The risky coding agent isn't the one that ignores you. It's the one that helps too much.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/consulting-coordination/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/consulting-coordination/Most enterprise AI value is lost not to model limits but to the organisation around the model. Coordination, not intelligence, is the binding constraint.Sat, 02 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/consulting-outcomes/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/consulting-outcomes/AI breaks the day-rate convention. The question is no longer whether consultants use AI but whether firms can stop selling effort and start underwriting results.Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/consulting-barbell/https://notes.qiuyue.dev/posts/consulting-barbell/AI is unbundling what consulting really sold. The pyramid is becoming a barbell — generic analysis squeezed, judgment-heavy work repriced upward.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT