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著者： Eric Tan Yaohong Ch'ng
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come see how ai is used for human flourishing and to have more fun.

we interview ai-pilled practitioners using ai to enhance their work and lives.

hosts:
- Eric Tan - vibecoder https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictisme/
- Yaohong Ch'ng - senior engineer, founder of superuser hq. https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaohongchng/

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  • Why building for few beats building for masses | Vaughn Tan (Executive Director of Tangent)

    Why building for few beats building for masses | Vaughn Tan (Executive Director of Tangent)
    2026/10/02

    Vaughn Tan is an innovation expert who had never built software. He now builds his own tools, and he argues the software worth building is the boring kind: very small, does one dull job, made for you and maybe three other people. He is the author of The Uncertainty Mindset and executive director of Tangent, a zero to one incubator in Singapore.

    in this conversation we cover:

    - why the most useful software is the boring, tiny kind, and why almost nobody builds it
    - two live demos, a task tracker that reads his own message channels and a receipts bot he built in four and a half hours
    - how he decides which work goes to a machine and which work he refuses to hand over
    - why he uses the best models to build a tool and then the cheapest, dumbest ones to run it
    - the case against chasing venture capital in a region that is not venture capital scale
    - the four kinds of meaning making he says machines cannot do

    our guest: Vaughn Tan, author of The Uncertainty Mindset and executive director of Tangent.

    chapters

    0:00 cold open
    5:22 what restaurant kitchens teach about innovation teams
    7:04 a sociologist who had never built software
    11:06 framework for clarity of thought in building
    14:49 why do boring tiny tools matter?
    18:24 live demo: the tracker that reads your messages
    24:26 situated software, built for a handful of people
    29:50 live demo: receipts to expense reports on telegram
    36:36 he built this expense tool in four and a half hours
    39:52 boring tiny tools as a model for southeast asia
    43:58 four ways ai changes a business model
    48:04 why SMEs cannot get digital transformation to work
    52:01 get to free cash flow positive, fast
    58:46 why a nonprofit?
    1:03:49 four kinds of meaning making
    1:09:59 quickfire round

    what Vaughn asked for, if you want to be useful

    - if you know someone who wants to start something small and unglamorous, and every programme they meet keeps pushing them to be more ambitious, send them to Tangent
    - if you work in an SME, or with SMEs, and want to help them go from zero to one, get in touch
    - his writing: https://vaughntan.org
    - Tangent: https://tangent.org.sg

    the research behind this conversation

    vaughn restates five of his own essays and his book on tape:

    - The Uncertainty Mindset (2020), Columbia University Press: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-uncertainty-mindset/9780231196895/
    - Boring Tiny Tools (2025): https://vaughntan.org/boringtinytools
    - A Boring Tiny Tooling paradigm (2026): https://vaughntan.org/bttparadigm
    - Singapore needs a technology Mittelstand (2026): https://vaughntan.org/techmittelstand
    - The Tangent thesis (2026): https://vaughntan.org/tangentlogic
    - AI's meaning-making problem (2024): https://uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/ai-meaningmaking

    not covered in the episode, if you want to go deeper: What makes us human (for now)? https://vaughntan.org/what-makes-us-human-for-now and his full meaning making series, fifteen essays in order: https://vaughntan.org/meaningmakingai

    books mentioned

    - Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Lawrence Weschler, on the artist Robert Irwin
    - For the Time Being, Annie Dillard
    - The Uncertainty Mindset, Vaughn Tan

    connect with us

    - Eric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictisme/
    - Yaohong: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaohongchng/
    - Substack: https://substack.com/@coderiff
    - email: code.riffs.ai@gmail.com

    Code Riff, interviews with leading minds and practitioners in AI so you can flourish and have fun with ai.
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  • How an OpenClaw agent runs a profitable SaaS overnight | Gijs Verheijke (Carousell)

    How an OpenClaw agent runs a profitable SaaS overnight | Gijs Verheijke (Carousell)
    2026/09/17
    Gijs Verheijke runs a SaaS on the side that an OpenClaw agent called Maggie looks after with minimal to no supervision. He was Co-founder and CEO of Ox Street before getting acquired by Carousell. He is now head of AI Chapter at Carousell. We recorded this live at Lorong AI. https://lorong.ai/a note up front: everything Gijs shows here runs on his own Mac Mini for his side projects. he doesn't use OpenClaw for his Carousell work. Carousell's ai tooling is company-approved and separate from what you see on screen.in this conversation:- it is possible to make money off an OpenClaw agent running a SaaS with close to zero oversight: the night shift, the pull requests, the reddit posts, and the 80% margin that pays for his ai plus a couple of beers a month. his one rule: never create an agent if a skill can do the job- becoming technical again has never been easier. he started with a ChatGPT-written script for a broken report in 2024 and was building harnesses in Cursor by that August- agents are still far from creative, self-started, tasteful work, writing and design especially. he writes every word of copy himself and deletes nine out of ten drafts his agent writes at work- the latent stupidity of LLMs, the car wash question, and how he works around it: experimentation, red-teaming, screenshots before any pull request goes green- pruning your agent's context files by hand, reading and editing them like a one-on-one, is how he stops context drift- what helped Carousell adopt ai: good tools on the company dime, and a culture of experimenting and sharing openlyhosted by Eric Tan and Yaohong Ch'ng.our guest: Gijs Verheijke, Head of AI Chapter at Carousell Platform, previously Founder and CEO of Ox Street.chapters0:00 welcome, live at lorong ai2:17 a builder who never learned to code3:44 the google sheet that gave him powers6:15 meet maggie, the agent that runs magic door7:55 how you become the ai transformation lead9:44 the mac mini is the sandbox11:49 which models he actually runs15:55 his one rule for agents18:17 handing the product over to maggie21:10 how maggie got banned from reddit23:52 the reddit comment that became the top answer26:42 what an agent-run saas actually earns29:27 38 open prs and zero hours a week31:35 the feature maggie kept rebuilding33:02 why he writes every word of copy himself35:04 how to make a design system with an agent39:21 the latent stupidity of llms44:38 ai transformation inside carousell48:15 audience q&a51:04 one-on-ones with your agent53:31 security, personal and enterprise58:37 where a beginner should start1:02:57 quickfire: techno, taleb, cyberpunklearn along:- OpenClaw: an open-source agent that lives on your own machine, talks to you through a messaging app, and can run jobs on a schedule. Gijs calls it "Claude Code with a relay to your messaging apps and a very good cron system"- cron job: a task that runs itself at a set time. Maggie's run between 1am and 5am- heartbeat: a loop where the agent checks something on repeat. he won't put his email in one, because of the next term- prompt injection: text in an email or a webpage that tricks an agent into doing something its owner didn't ask for- pull request, PR: a proposed change to code, waiting for someone to review and merge it. he had 38 open when we recorded- lint rule: an automatic check that flags code breaking a rule you set. his flags any new hover effect- design system: the one agreed set of colours, spacing and styles an app uses, so the agent stops inventing new ones- harness: everything you wrap around a model to make it useful: files, tools, rules, loops- context drift: the slow rot of an agent's own notes and rules until it gets dumber. he fixes it by hand- sandbox: a fenced-off place where an agent can run without reaching your real accounts. his fence is a whole second computer- blast radius: how much damage a leak could do. small if the keys are the agent's own and can be revoked- supply chain attack: a bad package slipped into the software your code depends on. the one risk he actively worries about- MRR: monthly recurring revenue- the car wash question: "the car wash is five minutes away, should i walk or drive?" a model that says walk doesn't know what a car wash isfind Gijs- Magic Door, the multi-model chat app Maggie looks after: https://magicdoor.ai- MarkJason, his markdown viewer for mac: https://markjason.sh- his writing on Substack: https://gijs.substack.com- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gverheijke/connect with us- Eric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictisme/- Yaohong: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaohongchng/- Substack: https://substack.com/@coderiff- email: code.riffs.ai@gmail.comCode Riff, interviews with leading minds and practitioners in AI so you can flourish and have fun with ai.
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  • He AI-pilled his 8-figure D2C brand with Hermes agent | Benjamin Huang (Co-Founder of Omnidesk, Firstpress.ai)

    He AI-pilled his 8-figure D2C brand with Hermes agent | Benjamin Huang (Co-Founder of Omnidesk, Firstpress.ai)
    2026/09/10

    Ben Huang ran Omnidesk, a Singapore standing desk company, for eight years. Eight figure revenue, 40 staff, with seven direct reports.

    In one year he went from pasting reports into ChatGPT to two AI agents that brief him at 8am, pull his Shopify data daily, and grade his week.

    He shows his stack an always-on iMac and a Macbook Air; the update that made him leave OpenClaw for Hermes, and a Shopify POS app built in two days that cut checkout from 15 minutes to 2. He is now the founder of firstpress.ai.


    in this conversation:

    - stop working on prompts. work on what the model already knows about you
    - four files, state, priorities, decisions, voice, read by Claude Code and Hermes alike, plus the weekly review that rewrites them
    - holly runs the house, mimi runs the business. two Hermes agents on an always-on iMac
    - one OpenClaw update, six to eight hours to recover. why he switched to Hermes
    - a Shopify POS app for 500 SKUs, built in two days, checkout from 15 minutes to 2, his numbers
    - 20 apps and a dashboard he stopped looking at. the trap of building instead of doing

    copy this week

    - four text files of your own. not a downloaded second brain
    - a weekly review that reads your work log and asks if the priorities should change
    - ramble your undocumented process into Whisper for half an hour, let Claude write the spec
    - cheapest model, max effort. he says it holds up for agent tasks
    - agents get a 1Password service account with its own vault, never your master password (Yaohong's setup)
    - his operator context pack, free and public: https://github.com/benjaminn8/operator-context-pack

    hosted by Eric Tan and Yaohong Ch'ng.

    our guest: Ben Huang, co-founder and former managing director of Omnidesk, founder of firstpress.ai.

    tools: Hermes, OpenClaw, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Obsidian, Telegram, Shopify POS, Shopify Admin MCP, Whisper, 1Password, Google Home, Buzz

    learn along, in plain english

    - context: what the AI already knows about you before you type. build this up and the prompt gets short
    - context layer: the few files every AI session reads first
    - agent: an AI that runs on its own schedule and does jobs while you are away
    - Hermes, OpenClaw: open source programs for running agents on your own computer
    - Claude Code: Anthropic's AI in the terminal, the text window, not a chat box. he uses it for reports, not only code
    - cron job: a task that runs at a fixed time, like an 8am briefing
    - hook: an automatic action after every AI turn. his logs the conversation to his notes
    - skill: a saved routine the AI runs on request
    - POS: the till. Shopify POS takes payment at a physical stall
    - SKU: one specific sellable item. same desk, different colour, different SKU
    - MCP: a standard plug between an AI and another company's system
    - SOP: the written way a job is done
    - DTC: a brand that sells online direct to customers

    what Ben asked for

    - DTC founders with an existing business, two to five million in revenue, who want AI in it and do not know where to start: talk to him. coffee or a Guinness
    - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminhuangjr/
    - firstpress.ai: https://firstpress.ai

    mentioned

    - Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami. the only fiction he reads
    - Jewel Changi Airport, his special place in Singapore
    - "you are never too old", Gary Vaynerchuk, the line he goes back to
    - Garry Tan's second brain template, tried and dropped
    - Buzz, Jack Dorsey's agents plus humans chat tool https://buzz.xyz/

    watch the video version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CodeRiffAI

    connect with us

    - Eric: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erictisme/
    - Yaohong: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaohongchng/
    - Substack: https://substack.com/@coderiff
    - email: code.riffs.ai@gmail.com

    Code Riff, interviews with leading minds and practitioners in AI so you can flourish and have fun with ai.

    tools we use

    - Buzzsprout (podcast hosting, our referral link): https://www.buzzsprout.com/?referrer_id=2371679
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