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Everything on this site is in the list below in reverse-chronological order. These topics are the entry points that matter most if you are here for the autonomous-driving, robotics or product work.

2026

October

Personal AI agents compared: Claude Duet vs Dot vs Gemini Spark vs Grok Bot vs Muse (October 2026)

One table comparing eight personal AI agents: hosted Claude Duet, Dot, Gemini Spark, Grok Bot, Instinct and Muse, plus open-source, self-hosted Hermes Agent and OpenClaw. Every cell links to an official page; anything the vendor doesn’t publish says “Not disclosed”.

October 25, 2026 · Liam Ding(丁洪)

An agent's shippable capability is set at the review gate, not the generation gate

22% of merged PRs are agent-written, ~0.6% agent-reviewed. That gap is the spec, not a model lag.

October 23, 2026 · Liam Ding(丁洪)

Eiliko's 68,000 reachable robots show consumer robotics has no R155

Eiliko’s 68,000 reachable robots show consumer robotics lacks a patchable, revocable trust boundary; automotive’s R155 regime never forced one here.

October 21, 2026 · Liam Ding(丁洪)

Waymo's 2028 Toronto date is an ODD-evidence schedule, not a capability claim

Waymo’s Toronto 2028 date is an evidence schedule. Its 95% serious-injury figure is scope-bound; each snowbelt ODD slice must re-earn it.

October 19, 2026 · Liam Ding(丁洪)

Human in the loop is not a robot safety specification, and ADAS already proved it

Human-in-the-loop as a yes/no rule carries no engineering content. Specify takeover latency, teleop ratio and robots per operator instead.

October 14, 2026 · Liam Ding(丁洪)

Personal agents split into two markets: productivity sells ROI, secretary sells time

Productivity agents sell proven ROI to a narrow paying base; secretary agents sell back time to everyone else, monetised by transactions, not subscriptions.

October 12, 2026 · Liam Ding(丁洪)

Waymo's first term loan reprices the AV roadmap around cost per delivered mile

Debt makes cost per delivered mile, utilisation and ops labour first-class; city counts and disengagement rates become second-order.

October 12, 2026 · Liam Ding(丁洪)

Eval as spec: grade the agent's side effects, not its success story

Judge agents by executable end state and pass^N, not self-reports; the eval harness is the product spec, and verification depth is the constraint.

October 9, 2026 · Liam Ding(丁洪)

Personal agents: the entry point buys the habit, the interaction buys the trust

The entry point buys the habit; the interaction — what the agent hands back and who verifies it — buys the trust.

October 4, 2026 · Liam Ding(丁洪)