Hello everyone, I am Mr. Silicon Valley, a writer who continues to witness the present and future of the era through my eyes and pen. Recently, I received the annual summary from my WeChat public account and found that2024 indeed has fewer articles written; excluding a New Year blessing, there are only4 articles.
The most read article is “With the Left Hand Retiring Gold and the Right Hand Venture Capital Thirteen Articles,” it seems that both the algorithm and readers enjoy the macro narrative style. It is said that there are two mysteries in the investment industry: one is the mystery of human nature, and the other is the mystery of policy. When the mysteries reach their end, one cannot escape the fundamental principles of economics and the complexities of human relationships, which naturally creates a plethora of topics on Xiaohongshu and resignation bloggers.
In this era, we do not know whether this moment or the next is more important; we are simply witnesses to history at all times.
My favorite is “Time is Running Out for AI Model Entrepreneurs.” I seriously researched a draft for a month after the macro view of AI, maintaining the article’s consistent humorous style and unexpected personal emotions, such as human nature being the first productive force of science and technology, a flying car, and a tweet that can update a maximum of140 words, as well as the next generation of AI revolutionaries daring to call for a new era.
Unbeknownst to me, the gears of fate began to turn.
After finishing the macro view of AI, I became interested in various AI tools. In the month following the article’s publication, I used AI to write official documents, translate, draft meeting minutes, plan itineraries, answer various questions in literature, history, and philosophy, use my phone’s camera for object recognition, chat with me in real-time, generate audio files, create images from text, generate videos from text, and images to video, and even made a super messy digital person for myself, and so on.
All of these tools are great and very useful, but ultimately, they still depend on the attitude of “what can shock me instantly that I completely do not understand” which led me to try programming—
I was blown away.
Now I have changed my WeChat name to Garnett.ai.
Then, from a product manager’s perspective, I asked the machine to readjust the code for me, to change the prompts for numbers that are too large or too small into pop-ups, to automatically delete previously guessed incorrect numbers, and to adjust the design presentation interface to align with the core socialist values. From modifying the code to copying and pasting, it took me a total of—
less than 1 minute and a half.
The majority of the time was spent on copying and pasting, which is the time cost.
How should I describe that shock? As someone who does not know coding but believes that computer language is the future, as someone who worships technology regarding the Next Big Thing, as someone who fears that AI will replace all my value, as someone who believes that if there is unemployment, programmers will be the last bastion.
For many years, nothing has changed my perception of the world at the atomic level.
I wrote in “Time is Running Out for AI Model Entrepreneurs” that the next battlefield exists in the next byte, and the next generation of users is growing up under the influence of algorithm-recommended smart device content generation; they are culturally confident and also AI models. They have enough ambition to reach for the moon and dive into the ocean.
In the past, they may not have had this ability, but now the whole world is scrambling to provide them with shovels for large models, ah no, excavators, ah no, automated nuclear warheads.
I don’t know if automated nuclear warheads exist now, but I finally know where that over 100 billion dollars of R&D investment has gone, that is the productivity tool destined to reshape everything in the future, that is the great migration of the next generation of humanity, that is the vast world current that flourishes when followed and perishes when opposed..
There are no excuses; the era of becoming a super individual has arrived.
Are you ready?
Then I thought about my overly limited input and even less output in the year 2024.
Thinking about the original intention of establishing the public account, to witness and record history.
Thinking about if I were to leave, what identity I should have and what legacy I would leave to the world.
It should still be my writing, my witnessing, my understanding, my thoughts, flowing through words.
I am not someone who likes to set flags, but in 2025, I want to do more.
I want to continue to delve into RBF, waiting for the new cycle of the Sino-US great power game in the wave of innovation; I want to continue to thirst for books, returning to the mental state of annotating the Six Classics; I want to travel to more cities, watching history while looking to the future; I want to continue to maintain fitness and basketball, occasionally exploring how to expand into new sports; I want to continue using words to record this world in more detail and use AI to optimize all my passions and loves in life.
A more interesting future can be anticipated.
In the past month, besides busy work, I have also tried to get closer to this complex and vast world through reading and traveling.
I watched half the city’s fireworks and half the city’s immortals at the foot of Qingyuan Mountain, listened to the wind moving the banners at Nanhua Temple where incense is abundant, experienced the world of Xin Qiji at the railing of Yugu Tower, and felt the tension of acquiring the national bank in the story of Dan Weijian.
Many times, I think, life is finite, knowledge is infinite, life is fleeting, merely a hundred years.
How many opportunities are there within our cognition?
Personal success or failure, the rise and fall of cities from fishing villages to skyscrapers, a country’s awakening to the world and national resurgence, all take merely a hundred years.
These reflections on mountains, rivers, and history make me realize that whether it is personal fate or the torrent of the times, what we can do is to explore more unknowns within our limited lifetimes and write our own testimonies (This paragraph was suggested to be generated by Chatgpt).
The road ahead is indeed as tough as iron, but now I will walk from the beginning again.
I am ready to iterate; I will write about the insights from reading ten thousand books and traveling ten thousand miles; I will attempt more diverse communication methods; I will narrate this era more frequently, a brand new next big thing opportunity has arrived, just waiting to see how it will change this world, just like the internet and mobile internet that truly changed the world in the past torrents.
I remember a phrase that has always lingered in my mind these past few years, Be part of something tremendous, to be a part of the great current.
In this era filled with change and opportunity, I hope to be the ripple that propels the future within the current, leaving meaningful footprints for myself and this era through every deep dive and record. The era’s canvas is gradually unfolding, and our strokes should boldly fall upon it (This paragraph was suggested to be generated by Chatgpt).
Welcome everyone to witness the iteration of Mr. Silicon Valley 2.0.
Some parts of the writing assisted by the large model have been annotated in the text; I feel it understands my writing style quite well. Here are the primary prompts I used to have the large model serve me:
You play the role of a writing master, and you will next:
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Check for typos in the article I will input
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Provide suggestions for modifying the word order and semantics in the article I will input
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Provide suggestions for optimizing the wording in the article I will input
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Offer specific optimization plans and directions for the article I will input
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Do not directly modify the text, only provide annotation suggestions
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Provide genuine feedback as a writing master after reading
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Reply with1 and start executing
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