Alumbriva

Exploring possibilities yet to take shape between technology and humanity.

Can Caring Too Much Make You Lose Something?

After moving, I chose an apartment facing west. Outside the window there is a wide stretch of green and a lake. I have been very happy watching the afternoon li…

The Disappearing ‘Person’

At one point while discussing Anthropic's recent ‘2028: Two Scenarios for Global AI Leadership’ with NotebooLM, I noticed that my input method had done somethin…

AI, Gender Bias, and Resume Screening

Earlier, I used the Hugging Face API to make a voice-to-paint tool. Then I noticed that whenever the generated image involved a person, it was almost always mal…

A Second Brain, and Capturing Intent

At the end of last year, I was obsessed with AI coding. Most of what I did then was decide what to make, ask AI to write a PRD, and let an agent work. Once ther…

Data, Memory, Context, and Other Things

One day I remembered talking with AI about certain topics. I went back with keywords, but the results were often disappointing. The jump did not always land on…

How Are We Drawn to a Space?

Whenever I visit a new city, the things that draw me most are still the familiar cultural and art spaces, especially bookstores. I never get tired of going to p…

Do People Really Need to Be Explained?

1) I read a passage in an article that felt a little unreal, so I asked Gemini the same question. After seeing its reply… well, another perfect example of GIGO:…

What If Editing Had a Shadow?

Part of my everyday work is related to podcasts. With podcasts, what really takes time is often not the content itself, but post-production, especially audio ed…

My First Open-Source Product (an Extension!)

After a little more than two days, on and off, I finally made my LumiFlow MVP! (The MVP itself was finished earlier, but I did not think the features were good…

Podcast Content, AI, and Creator Sovereignty

Last year, I helped a friend produce a podcast series about the culture of Gulangyu. During the process, she brought up the “long-tail effect”, or, put another…

Boys' Love, Reality, and Our Own Bubbles

‘I feel that most boys' love works exist to fit the market or the audience. The criticism of “making BL ugly” shows it clearly enough. The way people are writte…