Robin Malau

The Note That Closed a Chapter

Robin — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:28:33 +0000

My nephrologist wrote it out by hand at the end of the appointment. I needed vascular surgery to get ready for hemodialysis. I'd been driving to San Jose to see him for months, and that drive was about to end.

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The Decision I Regret Most Was the One I Didn’t Make

Robin — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:44:38 +0000

I was somewhere off the 5, at a gas station I don’t remember the name of, maybe three hours into the drive from LA to the Bay Area. I’d pulled in for a quick restroom stop, the kind you take when your body decides for you and the next exit is anyone’s guess. On my […]

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Adding a Third to the Team

Robin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:25:00 +0000

OpenAI merged ChatGPT and Codex into one app last week. My workflow added ChatGPT as a third role. The Codex desktop app updated in place and now houses Chat, Work, and Codex modes on macOS and Windows. That’s the shipping story. It’s a UI move. The models underneath are different from each other, and the work they’re […]

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A Month on the Ground

Robin — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:33:57 +0000

I woke up on the floor. I hadn’t fallen. I just couldn’t stay upright anymore. The dizziness had been building for days, and then one morning my body was done. The kidney disease has been part of my story for a while now, and if you’ve read this blog you already know that. What I […]

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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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