Robin Malau

I Almost Became an AI App Developer. Then I Remembered Who I Am.

Robin — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:14:19 +0000

The more I work with AI, the more I am amazed by human creativity. That is not the reaction most people expect. But when you work inside these systems — evaluating them, breaking them, watching where they struggle — what becomes clear is where everything they know actually came from. AI learned from human output. […]

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Entombed Prepared Me for Angine de Poitrine

Robin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:25:56 +0000

The guy in the polka-dot suit is playing something that looks like a guitar but isn’t. Two necks, strange frets, and when he hits a chord it lands just slightly outside where your brain expects it to land. I watched the KEXP video twice before I could place what I was feeling. I’d felt that before, in […]

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Karpathy’s Wiki Idea Is Right. It Just Doesn’t Tell You How Deep to Go.

Robin — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:15:53 +0000

Andrej Karpathy posted on April 3rd about a shift in how he uses AI — away from generating code on demand, toward building a self-maintaining personal knowledge base. Something that grows over time, stays readable, and doesn’t reset every time you open a new session. The post went viral within days. Then MemPalace dropped. I […]

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Codex and Claude: Divided Intelligence

Robin — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:33:51 +0000

For a few weeks I was routing tasks by feel. Claude planned. Codex debugged. Sometimes I gave the same problem to both just to see what came back. It worked, roughly. But there was friction I couldn’t name. Turned out the friction was a wrong question. I kept asking which one was better. That framing […]

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The AI Memory System Milla Jovovich Built Taught Me Something. Just Not What I Expected.

Robin — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:13:51 +0000

A new repo dropped and within two days it had thousands of GitHub stars. An AI memory system built by Milla Jovovich — yes, the actress — scoring 96% on some benchmark I’d never heard of. I saw it early, before the writeups started. And felt the familiar thing: maybe this is the piece I’ve […]

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Rockstar Now Geek blog is now on WordPress

Robin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:26:42 +0000

Rockstar Now Geek started on Substack. It made sense at the time — free, clean, easy to set up. The problem is that Substack is built around the idea of a newsletter, and what I’m actually doing there is not that. It’s a companion blog to my YouTube channel, written in Indonesian, documenting life in […]

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Claude Thinks. Codex Builds. I Ship.

Robin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:14:25 +0000

Every startup I have ever run was bootstrapped. Soda Music. Musikator. Konserama. All of them. No VC money, no seed round, no fancy office with a ping pong table. Just a problem, a budget that made me nervous, and the stubborn belief that the right tool beats the expensive tool every time. That instinct didn’t […]

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Introducing Malau Digital

Robin — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 01:13:07 +0000

So, malaudigital.com launched today. It’s a WordPress design agency serving small businesses in the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles County. I’ve been building in the digital space for about twenty years. My first website went up in 2006. By 2008 I was taking on client work in Bali, and within a few years I had […]

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The Best of Both Worlds: Codex and Claude Code

Robin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:20:06 +0000

A few weeks ago, I switched from ChatGPT to Claude for day-to-day LLM use. I’d been thinking about it for a while. Claude has been shipping features aggressively. Someone on Threads counted over 50 new features in just a few months. It gets good reviews from developers, marketers, founders. People actually using it for work. […]

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Language ≠ Code

Robin — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:01:22 +0000

Some instructions at work are written in programmer logic: “If you see result X, then the opposite is true.“ My brain doesn’t work that way. I read linearly. I follow the thread, build a picture, and arrive at a judgment. When I hit an instruction written in that logic, my first instinct is to ask […]

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