As an indie software business, we're constantly faced with a tough question:
Do you double down on what s working?
Or hedge your bets and build something new?

The past year at Magic Lasso Adblock, we asked ourselves that very question.

Beijing is investing billions into a national AI fund and its broader AI+ initiative to embed artificial intelligence across the entire economy. Backed by strong state support, domestic chip production, and lower manufacturing costs, China can scale AI solutions rapidly and analysts say it s on track to surpass the U.S. in the race for AI dominance. (IMO, it already happened.)

And one of the examples is these 2 news items I read today:
1) Alibaba unveils Qwen3.5 as China s chatbot race shifts to AI agents

2) and this one is even more important:
Alibaba has launched RynnBrain, an open-source AI model designed to power robots that can see, think, and act in real-world environments.

We've surpassed the singularity.

As usual, Y Combinator came up with segments that are worth investing:

1. Cursor for Product Managers
2. AI-Native Hedge Funds
3. AI-Native Agencies
4. Stablecoin Financial Services
5. AI for Government
6. Modern Metal Mills
7. AI Guidance for Physical Work 8. Large Spatial Models 9. Infra for Government Fraud Hunters 10. Make LLMs Easy to Train

We re usually very good at creating to-do lists for work.
But what about everything outside of work?

I ve started turning my personal habits into a checklist to build discipline and make these habits non-negotiable over time.

Here s mine:

It looks like OpenAI may have acqui-hired the @Cline team. It's not currently clear what that means for the future of the AI coding agent as a project, as their team members are now on the @Codex by OpenAI team.

Any open-source alternatives? @Kilo Code? @Zed? else?

We re officially in nominees season for the Orbit Awards: AI Workflow Automation.