Event Recap
Price Per Token Is the Wrong Unit Now
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.
Physical AI Will Be This Year's Christmas Gift
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.
Claude Blue: All of Silicon Valley Is Depressed
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.
Asking AI to Grow Revenue Is Like Picking Lottery Numbers
Snowflake's Juyeon Hwang says 80 percent of enterprise systems become legacy because the people who built them leave within four or five years.
Demand in the Provinces, People in the City
Manufacturers outside Seoul want AI and cannot find anyone to run the project, while starting pay for new developers slips below 30 million won.
The AI Creator Working with Disney and CJ
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.
Coding Interviews Are Over: How a Unicorn Founder Hires
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.
From Samsung to a District Office: How Korea Uses AI
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.
From 25 Listings a Week to 5,000 a Day
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.
Why It Took MyRealTrip Four Years to Go AI-Native
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.
A Senior Developer Colleague Moved to Sales. Why?
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.
AI Gave Back the Joy of Making
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.