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遊戲之勝:微軟與世嘉的跨國糾纏

《遊戲致勝》未收錄的一章:微軟與世嘉的 WinCE 糾纏,以及 Xbox 如何從 Dreamcast 的屍體上誕生。

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memory2026-05-28

The Truth Behind 900 Layers: When Your Switch and Steam Deck Are Footing the Bill for AI

Deconstructing the technology behind Samsung's 900-layer V-NAND, and explaining how AI's insatiable memory demand ripples into consumer electronics, forcing gamers to pay for the AI revolution.

10 min read
moat2026-05-26

HBM Is Not the Next TSMC: The Structural Chasm Between Memory and Logic

Dismantling the 'HBM = next TSMC' narrative across three dimensions — business model, industry cyclicality, and geopolitics — and warning of valuation misalignment at the cycle peak.

18 min read
artificial-intelligence2026-05-25

"Knowing" and "Doing" Were Never the Same Thing

AI tools created the Super Builder, but hidden underlying principles and lost judgment are fatal structural weaknesses.

4 min read
ai-content-industrialization2026-05-23

The New Species of the AI Era: Why Many Companies Are No Longer Looking for "Engineers"?

From a job posting, an AI short drama, to the 5 billion-viewed Jiangban Duck, dismantling the true structure of content industrialization in the AI era.

10 min read
humanities-education2026-05-20

Cognition and Judgment—The Last Thing AI Cannot Replace

Systematically exploring how cognition and judgment are formed, and how education, algorithms, and AI continually erode these critical skills.

20 min read
buzzword-inflation2026-05-19

Buzzword Inflation: The Economics of Over-Engineering in the AI Era

Examining the three stages of AI terminology inflation and how to distinguish necessary technical structure from gratuitous complexity.

5 min read
anxiety-arbitrage2026-05-17

When "Education" Becomes a Business That Cannot Fail

Deconstructing the business logic behind AI courses that sell 'simplicity' and how they shift the responsibility of failure entirely onto the learner.

10 min read
human-ai-collaboration2026-05-10

Two Kinds of Judgment: The True Difficulty of AI Collaborative Writing—Starting from a Novel and a History of Technology

Comparing AI collaboration in fiction and non-fiction to argue that different genres demand entirely different forms of human editorial judgment.

18 min read
human-ai-collaboration2026-05-04

Deciding whether an article is written by a human or by AI is actually a false question.

Arguing that the 'human vs. AI writing' debate misses the point; the real question is whether the content contains human thinking and judgment.

10 min read
google2026-05-03

Google Is No Longer Designed for You Either: When Free Models Become the Gateway to Enterprise Cloud

Analyzing Google Cloud Next 2026 to show how free AI models serve as a customer acquisition funnel for enterprise cloud revenue.

15 min read
artificial-intelligence2026-04-29

AI Models Haven't Gotten Dumber—They're Just No Longer Designed for You

Using financial data to prove AI models are shifting from consumer products to enterprise components, explaining why individual user experience is degrading.

18 min read
ai-image-generation2026-04-29

I Tested ChatGPT Images 2.0 Using Google's Own Prompts—The Results Were So Beautiful You'll Want to Fact-Check Every Detail

Reverse-testing ChatGPT Images 2.0 using Google's official prompts, revealing the vast gap between visual quality and factual accuracy.

12 min read
ai-agent2026-04-13

When everyone is still learning how to "raise lobsters", AI Platforms are learning how to "replace lobsters".

Using 'lobsters' as a metaphor for AI Agents to break down the three waves of market evolution and the trend of models devouring the middleware layer.

6 min read
job-market-contraction2026-04-09

Not a Transformation, But a Contraction: Another Way to Read the AI Job Wave

Dismantling the anxiety narrative surrounding the AI job wave, arguing that the software industry is undergoing structural contraction, not transformation.

9 min read
narrative-manipulation2026-03-31

Did Jensen Huang Say "Liberal Arts Students Won"? You Got Fooled by the Clickbait.

Deconstructing three common misinterpretations of Jensen Huang's 'liberal arts' comment and analyzing the four core abilities truly needed in the AI era.

6 min read

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