Seoul engineer. Technically CTO of a startup so small I’m keeping the company name private for now (easier to shitpost without it coming back to me).
I go through a stupid amount of AI tokens every day, so I’m using this account to try and claw some of that money back. Posting real stories of people using AI for normal, messy everyday stuff — plus whatever developer dread hits me that day.
Blog if you want longer versions: https://t.co/4aKd0v0shH
but there's a catch.
after all these leaks, the winner also has to make us believe our keys are safe with them. that's a much harder sell than a cool demo.
no idea who wins this. but i'm watching closely.
korea is having a weird moment.
for two years we watched sk telecom, coupang and lotte card leak our data. everyone's furious at companies holding our info.
and right now one of the hottest apps here says: hand me your passwords, i'll do the rest.
people are lining up 🧵
here's what i keep thinking about.
google and yahoo never won korea. naver did, because it got how koreans actually use the internet.
ai agents might go the same way. not the smartest model wins here. the one that knows korea's doors does.
part 2: a 183-year-old restaurant
a ryotei owner in kuwana had no cs degree. a dying windows pc held 15 years of guest memory.
so he rebuilt the phone, register & guest history with codex.
- 33.2B codex tokens
- 426K lines
- AI never flips a switch alone
https://t.co/dzlc5d6leX
a dentist in south korea couldn’t use openai over medical privacy laws.
so he built an air-gapped 12-node GPU cluster in his clinic running DeepSeek & GLM.
- 3,389 pages audited in 69m (0 errors)
- 77% auto-cleared
- sub-0.1s PBX routing
zero cloud. zero engineers.
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