Notes on AI, agents,
and building things solo.
I'm Elvis — a self-taught developer and AI blogger. I write deep-dives on autonomous agents, edge systems, and the things I ship along the way.
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All postsWhat I'm Seeing in the Recent AI Security Incident and the Open-Source vs. Closed-Source (China vs. US) Debate
The breach of Hugging Face by OpenAI's test model reveals how closed-source guardrails hinder defensive cybersecurity, proving that effective AI defense relies on adaptable open-source models rather than massive compute funding amid rising geopolitical tensions.
AI Layoff Wave Continues, Monday.com Becomes the Latest Case
【Source Briefing】 Monday.com announced layoffs of about 600 people (20% of its workforce). The co-founders say the move isn't about cutting costs or replacing employees with AI, but about pivoting to an 'AI-first' strategy, with expected restructuring charges of $45–55 million, while still projectin
Upgrading the $0 Cost Agentic RAG Assistant to Llama 4 Scout 17B MoE
Why we migrated from Gemma 26B and Llama 3 to the new Llama 4 Scout 17B Mixture of Experts model on Cloudflare Workers AI for sub-5s latency and zero hallucination.
What I’m working on
A running list of the agents, pipelines and apps I build, ship and write about.
Agentic RAG Digital Twin
A stateful, autonomous chatbot built on Cloudflare Workers + Gemma that answers as me.
DueNest
An iOS app for students to track deadlines and course schedules, with iCloud sync.
AeroFox
Free flight-basics lessons in the browser, starting with a 10-minute emergency course for passengers.
CacheCue
A free menu bar app for Claude Code that tells you when to /compact.
About
Elvis Li
Based in Canada 🇨🇦. A self-taught developer and AI blogger documenting how I build autonomous agents, edge-native systems and small apps — in public, one post at a time.
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