Elizabeth Tai

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  • Why I use Mistral as my personal paid AI service

    Claude is the “cool kid” of the retail AI services world. However, thanks to its snobbish attitude to some geographical locations, token limitations, and corporate ethos I ended up in the arms of Mistral. Why I use Mistral and why it honestly doesn’t matter how great the model is as long as it serves your…

  • Reading Pu Songling’s “The Haunted House”

    Pu Songling’s “Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio” are more than just ghost stories. They also serve as critiques of Qing Dynasty bureaucracy. With the help of an LLM “literature professor”, I explore the deeper insights of “The Haunted House”, one of the stories in the 300-year-old collection.

  • March 2026: What I’m doing now

    An update about what I’ve been doing.

  • Linkblog March 26, 2026: On typing

    I want word processors to be boring again.

  • How I conduct UX copy reviews

    Sometimes the challenge of UX writing is not what to write, but how we write our copy. Here I share how I streamlined the UX copy review process for my team based on Dr. Katharina Grimm’s methods, aiming to reduce cognitive friction in UX writing.

  • What I learned in Malaysian history class

    Malaysian secondary history classes have changed so much, so I am not sure what is being studied now. But during my time, we studied the history of Malaysia (of course), world history, which includes Islamic civilisations, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. We didn’t go in depth with all of them; we just learned their big…

  • Linkblog March 12, 2026: Platform blues

    In this issue I share Chinese culture, technology and how it impacts society.

  • The Writing Community’s AI Panic

    A New York Times article about Coral Hart, an indie romance author that generates 200 novels using AI has gotten most of the writing community clutching their pearls. Me? I’m just tired of this cycle of unproductive outrage.

  • Linkblog Feb 26, 2026: The Chinese issue

    China’s attitudes towards AI, and how China, Chinese culture continues to fascinate.

  • Matt Chung: Building communities – one post at a time

    How can communities come together in an age where media is dying, and the one that exists is shifting away from local news? How do we get messages out community when platforms’ “pay to play” business models are making it harder to communicate? Matt Chung is someone that has inspired me with his determination to…