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Victor Tan

Victor Tan is incredibly excited about AI technology and its potential to transform the world. He is the creator of Transform Your Creative Writing With ChatGPT on Udemy and the author of The Little Robot That Could Paint, an AI-generated children’s book that introduces children to artificial intelligence that will release on March 14th, 2023. He is deeply passionate about education, and In his coaching and tutoring business Ascendant Academy, he teaches students not only how to sell themselves to top institutions, how to write effectively and conceptualize ideas with AI, believing deeply that AI is not here to replace us, but instead to help us to level up as a species as we conceptualize and create the most powerful tools that the world has known since the dawn of humanity. When he isn’t spending time writing, creating online courses, and creating the occasional video about ergonomic chairs and curious uses of ChatGPT on his YouTube channel, he’s probably  spending time coaching students to enter top universities in the US and UK, creating new Apple Homekit smart home automations, and playing an already unreasonably large yet still growing collection of musical instruments.

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The Wonders of Human Laziness

One of the great motivating forces of humanity… Is laziness.

Yes, I know it’s a little bit ironic, but without going into detail, let’s just say that it’s a subtle and interesting force. And with that in mind, no greater solution to human laziness I think has been the advent of artificial intelligence. 

One of the fun little projects I’ve been experimenting with is with Claude Code. How interesting considering how just a few days ago I was one of those people who would dismiss the very idea of using multiple AI agents as ludicrous. Frankly, ChatGPT has been enough for me, and it likely will continue to be enough for me under the vast majority of all circumstances, purely because of its superior transcription capabilities.

Initially, I bought the $100 USD Max Plan only because I could thought I could use it for autonomously controlling my computer through a Chrome extension which I thus far still haven’t gotten access to, but it turns out that I’ve been using the quota allocation for something a little bit more productive.

With that in mind, here I have two small coding projects already:

 1. A social media scheduler that connects to your respective Instagram and Facebook as well as LinkedIn APIs for scheduling posting

 2. This new NLE that I’m working on called Verbatim.

It’s all very interesting to try out and I’ve been learning quite a fair bit about software development; it’s going to have to break in a whole bunch of different ways before we get it all entirely right I imagine, but I am pleasantly surprised at how amazing this is though. 

I don’t think that I have gotten into this if I were lazy in the way that I am.

Well, I guess there’s something good about everything really, laziness included – but is it really laziness at the end of the day if you are creating stuff every day just because it’s fun? 

Racial Harmony and A Difference In Approach

It was interesting to see how Singaporeans responded when a crazy man decided to go sending pork around to different mosques – very rationally, as it turns out.

You can watch my coverage here:

I think this is interesting because it showcases how far Singapore has evolved as a civil society – a place where this kind of thing, inflammatory as it is, doesn’t result in street protests or people casually and spontaneously fighting, but rather in solidarity across races and religions and a time of increased resilience rather than of tension.

Of course, that’s just what we see on the surface and we have no idea what’s happening within the souls of people, but I can safely say that that’s the energy.

Comparing that to what we see in Malaysia is like comparing night to day, darkness to light.

Well, as people do say…

On certain occasions, you must create your own light.

I will try.

Amazing Weekend

It’s way past midnight, and I’m just sitting here in the cab that I’m in at the moment, coming back from hanging out in Johor, hanging out in the human world, just chillin’, pickle ball playing, everything else.

Not super sure why it felt right to me to write this down, but it was a good memory that I wanted to enshrine forever.

It was my first time flying to JB and then back in a single day, and so many different things happened that it felt like it was a dream – learning a new sport, reconciling, chilling with old friends, having a nice chat with a girl I thought was kind of cute (I don’t think it’ll go anywhere, but it was a nice chat hahaha), and finding the magic in a random person that maybe I hadn’t even thought I would before.

There were so many wholesome things about today, it just reminded me that people are awesome, and it reminded me to keep them as a part of my remembrance – to remember that I am a part of the many people who define me and shape me in the small ways and the big ones alike.

I don’t write about every weekend – not every one deserves that; but this one definitely did 🙂

Only problem is that it’s 1233am and I’m on the way back on this taxi and will probably have to KO for the entire day tomorrow, but I suppose that’s life x_x

P.S. Oh yeah, and I talked about a pretty important topic in Malaysia-Singapore relations, and included a personal sharing there.

Just one of the many amazing things about this day that remind me what it’s all really about at the end of the day 😀