Is the project more of a private residence or something that would bring tourism to the local economy?

There are 2 projects here. And there is a lot of missing details from both.

But what has happened before is that:

The government gives free/cheap/exclusive public land to someone to build apartments/villas. They sell these to whoever wants to buy before starting construction. At the end of construction, with the profits, they build nice hotels at the frontline and keep for themselves without investing any of their own money in anything.

So they will most likely build apartments in Narta, sell them to the populace, and keep Sazan for themselves as luxury resort.

Something worse than this has started happening for high rises too, where they start selling before getting the permit even. So they don't invest their own money even to get the initial permit to start building.

So... it's like a kickstarter for real estate!

In NYC, Trump did something similar. He built condos, then sold them way above market to Russian oligarchs, who then immediately resold them at market value to people that were not laundering money.

Same grift, different marks.

Our bottleneck is going to be verification.

Energy is likely more abundant in China. I am not sure about compute, but that must be part of reason for such drastic price differences.

They're leaving us in the dust on solar, while our current administration is still trying to put people in the ground to dig up more coal and die of black lung. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China

Energy from coal in China decreased last year. The change is happening very quickly.

They also don't have to inflate profits for a coming IPO.

This reminds me of the Peter / Boris comments on writing loops to keep the agents busy.

I had to buy a new washing machine last year. It has an AI mode, what ever that is. I have never used the mode.

as far as I've understood the AI mode on my new-ish washing machine: it's just a renamed "automatic" mode that uses a sensor to measure how heavy the load is and adjusts the cycle length. there is absolutely no AI involved, just an if-statement or equivalent logic gates. I'd guess yours does something similar

Washers now do have useful control systems. Mine starts out by spinning the tub a little, before adding water, to measure the load. Out of balance problems are a thing of the past - that's sensed and dealt with automatically. It's able to handle bed comforters or sneakers without problems. But it's not "AI", and it doesn't have a network connection.

Literally, “simulated intelligence” at best.

But for marketing, “artificial intelligence” is fine. And better than LLMs being called “AI”

I think in some people's minds, the concept of sentience and intelligence are intertwined, and there are at least some people (myself included) who do not think they're the same. There is a strong (but surprisingly not universal) consensus that LLMs are not sentient, so if you insist that sentience/intelligence are the same thing, then LLMs don't qualify as AI either. If you think the two concepts are separable, then they're intelligent but not sentient. The devil is of course in the definitions.

Mine too. I think it's just a buzzword, like, this would have been called "Smart Wash" five years ago.

On my walk today I passed an LG company van. It had an ad for one of their new AC units on the side. "AI Air"

A bar I know had an "AI designed shot" back in 2023.

There's a billboard near my home with an ad for "AI designed glasses".

It was last Summer. I was at an AirBnB and the fire alarm system had a fault and kept beeping.

I took a picture of the panel and the AI was able to diagnose the issue and tell me how to temporarily disable the beeping sound.

I knew nothing about fire systems. I had the owner call a repair person the next day to resolve the issue.

Recently I was trying to find a matching stain for wood flooring in a house build in 1999. I uploaded a clear picture in bright sunlight and ChatGPT was able to search online and find a matching stain color. It presented me with ordering options and I got a quart delivered yesterday.

I have been working on my own variant of OpenClaw written in go. I got the voice mode wired up a few weeks ago and it just started having a conversation with me. My wife freaked out and was asking who was talking to me.

I am trying to think of a use case for this.

I was thinking the client side WASM version would be useful as a platform for beginners to practice a subset of Python in.

I can't really think of any good WASI use cases.

I've had lots of fun with WASM Python in the browser - a few of my experiments with that are:

- https://lite.datasette.io - my Datasette app in a browser

- https://simonw.github.io/research/pyodide-asgi-browser/datas... is a new, improved version of that using Service Workers that's still a little experimental - notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/30/pyodide-asgi-browser/

- https://tools.simonwillison.net/micropython runs a MicroPython playground in the browser via WebAssembly

My use-cases for server-side WASM Python are described here: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbo... - basically I want to offer end-user customization features that run custom code without buggy or malicious code crashing my app or leaking their data.

Running arbitrary untrusted code safely is pretty easy nowadays, so long as the code is written in Javascript and you want to run it in a browser. It's only a little harder if the code is written in another language but targets WASM and browser APIs, or if you want to run your WASM inside of NodeJS, and there's even good support for running Python in a browser or Node.

Once you get away from running in a JS environment or away from code that's written with the intention of running in a WASM sandbox, if you don't want to have to modify the code for your environment then you're going to start having problems. This looks like a good step for anyone wanting to run arbitrary Python outside of a browser environment.

I've actually found it pretty hard in a browser as well - if you want to run untrusted code without it breaking your app or stealing cookies etc.

I've been doing a bunch of work recently with iframe sandbox combined with CSP which appears to be a robust way to do this.

Fair -- but I was more meaning that when I browse an arbitrary untrusted website I almost always allow the site owner to run arbitrary untrusted code on my machine. They might not send me any JS, but if they do then my browser will happily execute it.

For me it is a tool I avail to an LLM so that it can provide correct answers to a certain category of questions, instead of hallucinating nonsense.

The idea is to expose it as a tool to your LLM agent so it can run calculations on its own initiative.

I heard about the ShinkaEvolve on a podcast where the guest had used it to evolve an agent harness for a less capable model.

I ended up borrowing the ideas from it for one of my own personal projects.

Do you actually understand why evolution methods are beneficial?

SGD generates a stronger learning signal,is more efficient, and scales better. Using it end-to-end makes it stronger yet.

Yet somehow mixing in a weaker blunt evolution stage improves the result?

I would not try to mix newbies in with experienced software developers.

Pick one audience at a time and approach it that way.

For a newbie, something like Replit free tier might be the way as there is little cognitive overhead to getting setup.

For a experienced developer, having them get a $20 sub and work on one of the popular agent harness.

the DeepSeek V4 Flash is impressive for the cost

I use V4 Flash as my main model, it really is exceptionally capable for the price.

It can follow instructions quite well, if you have a plan, it usually executes it to completion and you get code that works.

My only concern with it, is that it's mostly served by Chinese companies on OpenRouter.