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My AI Timeline
From a new computer to a personal knowledge library: published accounts in date order, including experiments, doubts and changes of mind.
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MacBook Weekly 01: Replacing my thirteen-year-old MacBook, and spending the first week setting up an AI workflow
A MacBook bought in 2013 stayed with me for thirteen years. What finally prompted an upgrade was not speed, but an old operating system that could no longer support the AI tools I wanted to use. In the first week, I installed Codex, reconsidered how to divide up creative work, and found a new role for the old computer.
MacBook Weekly 02: Week two with the new computer has not transformed me, but things do run more smoothly
A new computer did not instantly transform my life, but it smoothed out a workflow that used to get stuck. In the second week, I recorded the AI tools I installed and used, and tested what a hardware upgrade meant within the actual rhythm of my creative work.
MacBook Weekly 03: I barely painted, but nearly used up both Codex and Kimi
In the third week with my new MacBook, my cumulative Codex usage reached 220 million tokens, and my Kimi subscription allowance was also close to running out. I recorded how tools, a knowledge base, research into Shanghai sketching locations, and a one-person workflow were gradually taking shape.
What AI Really Changes Is Not Efficiency, but How People Grow
AI may do more than lower the cost of making things. It can help an ordinary person’s small idea become a prototype sooner. Once the barrier to creating falls, the more interesting change may be how curiosity, judgment, and the desire to learn grow again through collaboration.
AI's greatest danger may be making creative work look alike, rather than replacing creators
AI makes polished, complete work easier to produce, and imitation faster too. What we need to protect is more than a set of visual signatures: it is personal experience, aesthetic judgment, and the capacity to keep growing as a creator.
As AI Gets Stronger, Why Do I Want to Talk More About People?
AI has moved games, mini programs, and digital products from things “only others can make” to prototypes ordinary creators can try. But expanded abilities do not automatically bring curiosity, taste, or judgment. Growing with AI records how people continue to develop through collaboration as AI enters their lives.
After Using 440 Million Tokens, I Started Wanting to Learn Code
After more than a month with desktop agents, my confirmed Codex usage exceeded 440 million tokens, and Kimi’s shared monthly allowance ran out in five days. The real gain was realizing that ordinary users do not have to become programmers, but a little understanding of code can make collaboration with agents more precise.
My mom brought the new account its first 80 readers
Almost all of the new account's first eighty-odd readers came through my mom. Her unexpected efforts to spread the word helped her reconnect with friends and, after more than ten years of freelancing, made me feel for the first time that my parents were truly entering my creative world. AI had barely taught my mom any tools before it began connecting people.
After Seven Months with GetSeed, I Started Leaving My Recordings for AI
After seven months with GetSeed, recording became more than transcription: it began providing material from daily life to revisit, and context for AI. Starting with a recording device I bought for Mom, the article considers memory, knowledge bases, and privacy boundaries.
When the Quota Is About to Reset, I Start Giving Myself More Work
As his weekly Codex quota approaches its reset, Tee Sang starts finding himself more work. He reflects on the urge to use up a generous subscription and on the difference between a concentrated building phase and routine maintenance: quota is a resource for working, not the goal of the work.
My Toolbox Is Full Enough. It Is Time to Go Where the Problem Is.
As AI tools multiply, what is missing may not be the next piece of software, but a real problem worth solving. Tee Sang turns from intensive trials of Codex, Kimi, and video tools toward real-world situations, actual needs, and work whose delivery can be checked.
How an Independent Creator Can Help AI Really Understand Them
Fluent writing is not necessarily writing that sounds like you. Through four documents, “About Me,” “What I Am Working On,” “How I Like to Express Myself,” and “Why I Made This Edit,” Tee Sang shows how creators can leave AI less to guess while protecting facts, voice, and the boundaries of what they share.
Make Something First, Then Wait for People on the Same Wavelength
Through building a personal website and the Ask Tee Sang mini program, an independent creator who cannot code records how AI helps ideas take shape first, while continued revisions leave room to meet people who truly share his interests.
Why did AI turn customers away on my behalf?
Using old information, Doubao decided that I no longer accepted pet watercolor commissions. I began organizing my website and public information, then retesting with a GEO dashboard. Four or five days later, the metrics had shifted slightly, but discovery visibility and citations of my website remained at zero.
After Five Billion Tokens, I Started Looking for Needs
After his cumulative Codex use reached five billion tokens, Tee Sang stopped inventing projects to use up quota. Instead, he began using AI to collect real questions from watercolor learners and add the findings to the Ask Tee Sang judgment library, changing how he looks for demand as an independent creator.
I Made Two Rounds of Ads with Six AI Video Models
What would six AI video models produce from the same perfume ad prompt? I then gave each a task more suited to its strengths. Two rounds showed me that model prices are only part of the bill: retries, repairs, and product accuracy also affect delivery.
After Half a Day with GPT 6, What I Like Most Is Being Asked Less
After two months of heavy Codex use, Tee Sang records his first half day with GPT 6: faster replies, fewer mid-task confirmations, and continued improvements to his website and older projects. This personal account also distinguishes collaboration rules and permissions from model capabilities.
I do not enjoy the rat race, but I want to try reaching overseas
From sharing on Sina Weibo to art study trips, painting, and an AI-created virtual character, I look back at choices led by curiosity. I now want to try sharing familiar Shanghai life, watercolor, and photography on overseas platforms. I have no experience of that yet. I am starting with curiosity.
From Asking Runyu to Being Seen by Runyu
From asking Ask Runyu about watercolor services to making six AI story films, building Ask Tee Sang, and creating the virtual character TEVIA, Tee Sang recounts how he came to know Runyu and how these experiments opened new directions for creation and collaboration.
Why I am still buying paper books in the age of AI
Over the past month or so, I have been using AI frequently and buying quite a few paper books. Making videos and working on projects have shown me more clearly what I still need to learn, and made me more determined to keep judgment in my own hands.
One Month After Upgrading Codex, I Started Making Small Things
From waiting for Plus limits to reset to spending a month on Pro20X, I have made some progress on my website, videos, and knowledge base. At first I wanted to make something big. Now I am more inclined to finish one small thing first.
I do not feel as though I am caught in the rat race
Other people say I am always pushing too hard, but it does not feel that way to me. Curiosity keeps me exploring. Seeing the same video receive different responses in different places has also made me reconsider what it means to create value.
Planning with Two AIs Almost Took the Topic Off Course
While planning an online session with Ask Runyu and Codex, the proposal grew more detailed but drifted toward an AI video class. I restored the main thread of my knowledge base and creative workflow, and recorded the actual back-and-forth over pricing, posters, and QR codes.
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