Personal AI Agents: Actually Useful or Just Hype?Essay随笔
October 20262026年10月
Personal AI agents seem to have become the trend overnight. After Muse took off, suddenly everyone appears to be building one.
Travel stories, essays, and occasional notes on building AI systems.旅行、随笔，偶尔也写一点做 AI 系统的笔记。
Personal AI agents seem to have become the trend overnight. After Muse took off, suddenly everyone appears to be building one.
They say May is a month of possibilities. This year, it certainly was — I graduated from Columbia with a Master's in Statistics and started my first full-time job in New York.
This was my second trip alone, and it felt like the hardest.这是我人生中第二次独自旅行，感觉是最艰难的一次。
I was eating lunch in the Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. I had a strawberry croissant and a hot chocolate. I opened the message, saw it, and drank another sip. Too sweet.当时，我在华盛顿DC的自然历史博物馆里吃午饭，我点了一个草莓味可颂和一杯热巧克力，打开message，看到那条信息，我又喝了一口热巧克力，太甜了。
This was my first long trip alone. A year and a half after coming to the United States, I finally set foot in the capital.这是我人生中的第一次独自长途旅行。来美国一年半以后，终于踏上了美国的首都，华盛顿DC。
I have been reading Wang Guowei’s Remarks on Lyrics. I agree strongly with his theory of artistic realm, and it fits how I think about making prose.最近读王国维的《人间词话》，对他的“境界说”十分赞同，感觉与我的文章创作理念不谋而合，于是抄录几句并略谈些自己的见解。
I took a day off for my birthday and spent four days in Boston.生日请了一天假，去波士顿旅游了四天
I woke in a dim room. The fan turned without changing its note. The heat and damp made it hard to breathe. Outside it was raining. Memory struck the window like rain.在幽暗的房间中醒来，风扇单调地转着，闷热潮湿让人透不过气。不禁又想起雪山上清冷刺骨的风。外面下雨了。回忆像雨点敲打窗棂。
This is Utqiagvik, the northernmost city in the United States, also called Barrow. The flight from Anchorage takes an hour and a half, and only one plane comes in each day.这里是美国最北端的城市Utqiagvik，又称Barrow，从安克雷奇飞到这里要一个半小时，每天只有一班飞机可达。
This was the first time I had ever fished, deep-sea fishing out of Seward, Alaska. I was sure I would catch nothing. I caught four rockfish.这是我人生第一次钓鱼，在阿拉斯加的Seward海钓，本来以为肯定空军，结果钓到了四条石斑鱼，也算是意外之喜