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On the afternoon of Wednesday, October 7, Bloom × Lovable held a buildathon at PUBG Seongsu. The concept was an AI complaints desk. For a week beforehand we collected things people had always wanted to build with AI but never managed to, through the complaints desk channel on the Bloom Discord
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I'm a marketer who can't code, and with AI I started on a Monday afternoon, opened internal QA 27 hours later, and launched a closed beta before dawn on Thursday. Here's how it went, with the numbers, the things that broke, and the stack,
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About 40 people came to the Bloom App and Gardener launch party tonight, on two days' notice. There was no headline speaker and no program. We got the community into one room, showed everyone the app we'd just built, and took questions together, which is about as
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Korea Blockchain Week brought a wave of overseas companies into Seoul. Bloom isn't a blockchain community, but we'll work with anyone whose problem touches AI, and that's how we ended up co-hosting Agentic Payments Onchain with Ripple, t54 and Tenity. We wanted to
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Yuna Kwon of Airwallex and Peter Shin of Outsome on what order to go abroad in, and the bottlenecks that surfaced when 181 people talked it through.
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Jaeho Jung of Orcar Studio learned to avoid clients who could monopolize their market, and to sell AX as an owner's old dream, not a cost cut.
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Dongin Choi on why every political message collapses into the other side is bad, and why he would build an AI native party rather than fix an old one.
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The same task costs from 0.06 to 8.75 dollars depending on the model. Artificial Analysis says the unit that matters now is cost per task, not tokens.
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Team Sparta surveyed 330 training decision makers in Korea. 97% said AI training is necessary. 82% of those who took it still cannot use it at work. A night at Bloom with LilysAI and Team Sparta on where corporate AI adoption actually jams.
Around 150 AI builders gathered in Hapjeong as Nebius and NVIDIA opened a global physical AI hackathon, where robots under the Christmas tree came up.
Given a live LLM fortune-telling demo by Datadog, attendees spontaneously asked it for its system prompt, which is why observability comes first.
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Four months with no investment and no government funding. Jeongmin Lee on why companies hand one person only training, events, and advertising.
AI clones a voice in four seconds in Southeast Asia, says Frederick Chung of Level Five Group, the Singapore firm tracking fraud from Thailand to Cambodia.
Bloom has opened rooms with Microsoft, AWS, NVIDIA and Datadog, and venue or catering sponsors get a three to five minute company intro on stage.
AI now writes more code than humans can review, yet of about 15 professionals asked across the US and Korea, not one felt a bottleneck or harm from AI.
Snowflake's Juyeon Hwang says 80 percent of enterprise systems become legacy because the people who built them leave within four or five years.
Manufacturers outside Seoul want AI and cannot find anyone to run the project, while starting pay for new developers slips below 30 million won.
AI kept rendering hanbok as kimono or Qing dynasty dress, so KeepKwan taught the model himself after leaving a twelve-year strategy career at SM C&C.
Amazon cut early delivery failure rates 74 percent with a delivery agent, and stacked 23 thousand agents into an internal platform called Agent Z by May.
All five winners of a Claude Code hackathon were non-developers and first place went to a doctor, the case Jehim Choi used to argue domain knowledge wins.
Fieldguide prices on the results customers achieve rather than seat count, and put its first office outside the US in Seoul, CEO Jin Chang told the room.
Playco co-founder Teddy Cross says real insight comes not from conference halls but from rough talk in small coffee shops, before it reaches the internet.
Samsung Electronics runs Claude Code on 100 in-house GPUs for 4,000 active users on a workload needing 300 cards, and a civil servant built a statutes MCP.
The RFP holds only 20 to 30 percent of what decides a proposal and the remaining 70 to 80 percent is dug out of the field, AWS's Jihoon Park says.
Joseph Kim was the 100th member of xAI and now works at Thinking Machines Lab, and AB180 runs one internal automation that handled 800 pull requests.
MyRealTrip halved support headcount and went from 25 product listings a week to 5,000 a day by layering a chatbot over its existing systems.
MyRealTrip rebuilt execution and org structure over four years rather than add AI features, and AB180's Sungpil Nam spends 90 percent of his day with AI.
Cluely cut its creator roster from 100 to 70 and peaked at 100 to 150 million views a month, ex-CMO Daniel Min said of the three-layer funnel.
Customers now call a vendor only after roughly 60 percent of the decision is made, says Jongil Choi, yet the four-stage buying journey does not change.
After about eighteen years in development he moved to sales, arguing vibe coding lets anyone write code while few can still build a real product.
A thirty-person Gangnam meetup of Koreans ran entirely in English, with four speakers each bringing one case that broke expectations and one open question.
A product designer with ten years in a big tech R&D org pays 500 dollars a month for AI tools out of pocket, because making things became fun again.
He raised 300 thousand dollars for 9 percent with no product, then narrowed from the whole workflow down to collections for mid-sized legacy firms.
He moved to Google's AI search team to survive five more years, and a colleague saw the first two weeks in ten years with no executive status request.
Anthropic had its AI interview its own users, analyzing 80,508 of 112,846 responses from 159 countries and 70 languages, and respondents were candid.
Fast context-switching juniors now outshine deep specialists, while AI-written eighteen-page requirement documents drown the seniors who must verify them.
Critic Woojin Cha fed decades of his own columns into a model and runs about ten projects at once, and reads Korea's AI rush as the Bitcoin pattern.
An agent contacted all 85 requested buyers on LinkedIn overnight and about ten signed up, so the next idea has to be stranger, like Reflect Orbital.
A New York PM says time, not security, blocks AI adoption, at a company where an eighteen-page requirements document is the baseline everyone reads.
A Reddit post drew a US journalist whose questions were philosophical, not technical, and the story that landed hardest was a 93-year-old using ChatGPT.