[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":340},["ShallowReactive",2],{"\u002Fblog\u002Fvalue-not-external\u002F:en":3,"\u002Fblog\u002Fvalue-not-external\u002F-surround:en":234,"blog-all-posts:en":235},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":10,"date":217,"description":218,"extension":219,"image":220,"locale":221,"meta":222,"minRead":223,"navigation":224,"original":225,"path":226,"pinned":225,"seo":227,"source":228,"sourceUrl":23,"stem":229,"tags":230,"updated":220,"__hash__":233},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fvalue-not-external.en.md","Debating whether something has value is itself worthless",{"name":7,"avatar":8},"Chen Dahuang",{"src":9,"alt":7},"\u002Favatar.jpg",{"type":11,"value":12,"toc":211},"minimark",[13,28,31,34,37,40,43,46,52,55,58,61,64,67,70,82,85,88,91,94,97,100,116,119,122,125,128,133,136,139,142,145,148,151,154,157,160,163,166,169,172,175,178,181,184,188,191,194,197,200,203,206],[14,15,16],"blockquote",{},[17,18,19,20,27],"p",{},"Originally published on ",[21,22,26],"a",{"href":23,"rel":24},"https:\u002F\u002Fx.com\u002Frealchendahuang\u002Fstatus\u002F2067475762115174439",[25],"nofollow","X",".",[17,29,30],{},"I did something wrong.",[17,32,33],{},"I need to reflect thoroughly and apologize thoroughly.",[17,35,36],{},"I keep agonizing over whether something is useful, whether it has value.",[17,38,39],{},"I'm too restless.",[17,41,42],{},"I really am a restless person.",[17,44,45],{},"I need to correct this mistake completely, correct this mindset:",[17,47,48],{},[49,50,51],"strong",{},"Debating whether something has value is itself worthless.",[17,53,54],{},"Our value is not defined by anyone.",[17,56,57],{},"We eat, drink, sleep, daydream, make love every day.",[17,59,60],{},"That is our value.",[17,62,63],{},"I think, therefore I am. I make love, therefore I'm pleased.",[17,65,66],{},"AI is called AI, but it can't make love for me, so it has no value.",[17,68,69],{},"People don't live to prove themselves useful every single day.",[17,71,72,73,77,78,81],{},"A couple of years ago I watched the TV series ",[74,75,76],"em",{},"My Altay"," (",[74,79,80],{},"我的阿勒泰","), and one scene stayed with me:",[17,83,84],{},"The daughter Li Wenxiu asks her mother:",[17,86,87],{},"\"I'm clumsy, but I'm still a useful person, right?\"",[17,89,90],{},"Her mother Zhang Fengxia replies:",[17,92,93],{},"\"What does useful even mean? We didn't give birth to you so you could serve others. The trees and grass on the prairie — useful when someone eats them or uses them; if nobody uses them, they're just fine standing there on the grassland, free and easy.\"",[17,95,96],{},"My soul was struck right through.",[17,98,99],{},"Since childhood, we've all been trained into a tool-person mindset.",[101,102,103,107,110,113],"ul",{},[104,105,106],"li",{},"Is this thing useful?",[104,108,109],{},"Does this skill have value?",[104,111,112],{},"Can this thing be monetized?",[104,114,115],{},"Can this project raise productivity?",[17,117,118],{},"Question after question, until the person asking is worn out. Anxious all day, in FOMO, terrified of losing something.",[17,120,121],{},"So now I believe: value is something that shouldn't be defined externally at all.",[17,123,124],{},"You exist. You feel. You suffer. You rejoice. You love. You hate. You enjoy yourself. You laugh.",[17,126,127],{},"That is value.",[129,130,132],"h2",{"id":131},"then-about-ai","Then about AI",[17,134,135],{},"What is AI's real value?",[17,137,138],{},"People.",[17,140,141],{},"Because AI is invented by people.",[17,143,144],{},"When we talk about AI, we shouldn't only talk about technology, efficiency, enablement, automation, cost-cutting and productivity gains.",[17,146,147],{},"Those things matter, of course.",[17,149,150],{},"But AI isn't merely technology.",[17,152,153],{},"There's humanism inside it.",[17,155,156],{},"We can have it depict romance, love, friendship, loneliness, desire — even write dirty books.",[17,158,159],{},"These all carry a person's own humanism.",[17,161,162],{},"It's romantic.",[17,164,165],{},"It shouldn't die out as AI develops.",[17,167,168],{},"So when we talk about AI, what are we actually talking about?",[17,170,171],{},"Are we talking about AI empowering technology?",[17,173,174],{},"Or about how AI takes part in human romance?",[17,176,177],{},"And AI will never learn human humor.",[17,179,180],{},"It has no idea what a joke is — it can only play cringe. If you ask it to write jokes, you get dad jokes.",[17,182,183],{},"Asking AI to write a joke is, in itself, the joke.",[129,185,187],{"id":186},"what-i-want-to-talk-about","What I want to talk about",[17,189,190],{},"I want to start with AI and the human being itself.",[17,192,193],{},"From the angle of value.",[17,195,196],{},"From the angle of humanism.",[17,198,199],{},"From the angle of how we actually live with AI.",[17,201,202],{},"Then go deeper into the whole meta-skill set of working with AI to become more efficient.",[17,204,205],{},"What I want to say is:",[17,207,208],{},[49,209,210],{},"In the age of AI, how should people understand themselves?",{"title":212,"searchDepth":213,"depth":213,"links":214},"",2,[215,216],{"id":131,"depth":213,"text":132},{"id":186,"depth":213,"text":187},"2026-06-18","Our value is not defined by anyone. In the age of AI, how should we understand ourselves?","md",null,"en",{},6,true,false,"\u002Fblog\u002Fvalue-not-external",{"title":5,"description":218},"x","blog\u002Fvalue-not-external.en",[231,232],"AI thinking","Humanistic essay","0UXg6dXoudRJeWAPDtWaiQZ3CrHl0PNcXSmKH-G9NXY",[220,220],[236,244,253,262,269,277,284,292,300,306,313,322,329,331],{"path":237,"title":238,"description":239,"date":240,"minRead":223,"tags":241},"\u002Fblog\u002Fagent-harness-selection","After tinkering with Pi Agent, OMP, Codex, and ZCode, why I finally chose OpenCode + OpenChamber","A retrospective on choosing an Agent Harness: three criteria — GUI experience, vendor lock-in, and freedom for secondary development — ruled out Pi Agent, OMP, Codex, and ZCode, and finally settled on the OpenCode core + OpenChamber interface.","2026-08-06",[242,243],"AI Agent","Tool selection",{"path":245,"title":246,"description":247,"date":248,"minRead":223,"tags":249},"\u002Fblog\u002Fcloudflare-broke-stack","2026 indie dev best practices: the Cloudflare \"broke-ass all-in-one\" stack","The zero-cost tech stack for indie developers: Codex for writing code, GitHub for version control, Stripe for payments, TanStack Start for frontend, Hono + Workers for backend, D1 for database, R2 for storage, KV for caching — all running on Cloudflare.","2026-06-15",[250,251,252],"Cloudflare","Indie development","Tech stack",{"path":254,"title":255,"description":256,"date":257,"minRead":223,"tags":258},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdeepseek-api-web-search","DeepSeek's API has built-in web search — freeload the official search via the Responses API","DeepSeek built web search straight into the API: call deepseek-v4-flash through the Responses interface and declare the web_search tool. No third-party search engine integration, no search API key required.","2026-08-05",[259,260,261],"DeepSeek","API","AI tools",{"path":263,"title":264,"description":265,"date":257,"minRead":266,"tags":267},"\u002Fblog\u002Fdeepseek-v4-flash-review","DeepSeek V4 Flash stable release, hands-on: cheap, fast, 1M context, built-in search","A few days deep-diving the stable DeepSeek V4 Flash release: aggressively cheap, lightning fast, 1M context, official built-in web search, fully open source. The one weakness is multimodality — but you can patch it by combining other models.",7,[259,268,261],"Model review",{"path":270,"title":271,"description":272,"date":248,"minRead":273,"tags":274},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-cloudflare","How free users can squeeze Cloudflare dry — how far does the free tier actually get you?","Cloudflare's free tier can carry an entire personal internet infrastructure: DNS, CDN, Pages, Workers, KV, D1, R2, email, Tunnel, AI Gateway and more.",8,[250,275,276],"Free tier","Deployment",{"path":278,"title":279,"description":280,"date":281,"minRead":273,"tags":282},"\u002Fblog\u002Fmodel-harness-decoupling","The First-Party Harness Isn't Always the Best Answer: In the Open-Model Era, Pick Your Model and Harness Separately","Using Claude? Go Claude Code. In the open-model era that instinct deserves an upgrade. The first-party advantage is real, but training a good model and building a good harness are two different kinds of engineering — here's why models and harnesses are now separable choices, plus a positioning map of five harnesses.","2026-09-09",[242,283,243],"Harness",{"path":285,"title":286,"description":287,"date":281,"minRead":273,"tags":288},"\u002Fblog\u002Fopencode-productive-stack","Stable, Fast, Productive, Cheap: My AI Coding Stack, Documented","OpenCode + OpenChamber + two DeepSeek V4 Flash subscriptions: 15 projects running code simultaneously and the quota barely moved. The full configuration laid out — context pruning, layered memory, desktop automation, and the \"stick with the original pairing\" lesson.",[289,290,291],"OpenCode","AI Coding","Configuration",{"path":293,"title":294,"description":295,"date":296,"minRead":297,"tags":298},"\u002Fblog\u002Fproduct-faxin-principle","The founding-intention principle: why indie developers must learn to let go","Why do you set out? Who do you set out for? Which problem are you actually trying to solve? A product's sharpness comes from what you dare to cut.","2026-06-20",10,[299,251],"Product thinking",{"path":301,"title":302,"description":303,"date":296,"minRead":273,"tags":304},"\u002Fblog\u002Fproduct-pain-vs-itch","Don't get carried away when users say \"that's awesome\": pain points vs. itch points","Verbal approval is worth nothing. There's only one hard standard for judging demand: what the user is willing to pay.",[299,305],"Demand judgment",{"path":307,"title":308,"description":309,"date":240,"minRead":310,"tags":311},"\u002Fblog\u002Fqwen-vision-for-deepseek","Giving DeepSeek multimodality: the Qwen-3.7-Flash vision approach","DeepSeek V4 Flash has no multimodality — what do you do for image understanding? After surveying the market, the most cost-effective option right now is Qwen-3.7-Flash: recognizing an image costs almost nothing, and pairing it with V4 Flash patches the gap.",5,[259,312,268],"Multimodality",{"path":314,"title":315,"description":316,"date":317,"minRead":318,"tags":319},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsub-store-cloudflare","I moved my proxy subscription aggregation to Cloudflare","Merge multiple proxy services plus your own nodes into one single subscription, with routing rules configured server-side — clients just subscribe.","2026-06-28",4,[250,320,321],"Circumvention","Open-source project",{"path":323,"title":324,"description":325,"date":281,"minRead":266,"tags":326},"\u002Fblog\u002Ftui-cognitive-bandwidth","TUI Is Killing Your Cognitive Bandwidth: Time to Shatter the \"Geek Filter\" in AI Coding","A pile of AI coding agents are rushing to ship TUIs, stuffing interaction back into the 1980s terminal paradigm and calling it \"immersive\" and \"respectful of programmers.\" This piece breaks down the three mechanisms by which TUI systematically lowers your cognitive bandwidth — and why Web UI is the right answer.",[290,327,328],"Interaction design","Essay",{"path":226,"title":5,"description":218,"date":217,"minRead":223,"tags":330},[231,232],{"path":332,"title":333,"description":334,"date":335,"minRead":336,"tags":337},"\u002Fblog\u002Fx-growth-1000-followers","Gained 1000+ followers in a little over a day — here's what I did","In June I ran my X account seriously and gained 1000+ followers in a little over a day. This post records what I did and the feedback I got.","2026-06-16",12,[338,339],"X operations","Content growth",1789752313299]