Black Cat Notes

I’m Kuroneko — building in public. After years working with Japanese companies across manufacturing and IVD for the China market, I pivoted into AI and indie making to ship practical, calm software.

Here I share short takes on AI/product, notes from hands‑on work, and experiments in AI productization, iOS apps & small games, Rust tools, and Python data plumbing. Learn more on my About page.

On the side, I run a visual branding experiment — anime & aesthetic illustration curated at art.kuroneko-cmd.dev.

Recent Posts

• AI Isn’t Just Replacing Jobs. It’s Raising the Cost of Finding One.

  31 Aug, 2026

  AI makes applications and screening faster, but the resulting flood of synthetic signals is making trust, verification, and access to interviews more expensive.

• OpenAI Paused RL on Its Latest Models. Safety Is Real—and So Is the Business Logic.

  21 Aug, 2026

  OpenAI’s two-week RL pause reflects a genuine cyber risk, but it also sends a commercial signal to regulators and investors.

• Astra Is Delayed. Will Regular Users Get the Full Model?

  8 Aug, 2026

  OpenAI is slowing Astra over cyber risk, but a broad release may still keep its strongest capabilities behind classifiers, access controls, and safer fallback models.

• GPT-5.6 Luna Is 80% Cheaper. GLM-5.2 Is Now Stuck in the Middle.

  31 Jul, 2026

  OpenAI’s Luna price cut resets low-cost AI economics, squeezing GLM-5.2 while leaving Kimi K3 and DeepSeek with clearer positions.