I'm sure you have, at some point, seen those little ads for "essay writing services" in the bathroom stalls of a university administration building. You and I should have a consensus on this business: having someone else complete your thesis is unethical. In an era where the AI storm is sweeping the world, the one doing the "ghostwriting" no longer needs to be a real person. A quick search for online large language model services will reveal no shortage of flashy websites.

Initially, schools maintained a high level of vigilance against this trend, banning students from using such services for homework and papers, and adding an "AI writing detection" step to the graduation thesis review process. However, as prompt engineering becomes more refined, and various new models and fine-tuned versions appear one after another, the early detection services designed for a single model like GPT will likely become unable to handle these complex situations. As the conversational style of large language models continues to permeate the internet, the writing style of readers will also begin to converge with that of generated text. All these changes point to a clear outcome: it is becoming increasingly difficult to determine whether the author of a piece of writing is a real person.

Whether you have sought it out or not, I imagine you have seen plenty of "AI bloggers selling courses online." The most common narrative is, "This is the era of AI. If you don't learn now, you will be left behind," as if the world will end tomorrow if you don't buy their course today. Does this feel at all familiar to you, the reader?

Let's try this: "Don't let your child lose at the starting line." "First grade is the most important year." "If they fall behind in second grade, they'll never catch up." (Please mentally fill in the rest for third through sixth grade.) "The transition to middle school is a crucial moment in life." (Please continue to fill this in all the way to the college entrance exams.) Once in college, you'll be asked, "How can you sleep at your age?" And after starting work, someone else will say, "If you don't learn how to use AI, you're finished!"

Wow. Cool.

With the emergence of the Deepseek R1 model, many of my previous assertions about large language models have been overturned. For instance, the development paradigm I used in "Alice Run," has already shifted.

Previously, when I presented a development request to a large language model, I had to trim my code, carefully extracting and laying out the core of the problem for the model to process. Now, I only need to paste several pages of code related to the business logic all at once, and the model can reference the relevant implementations on its own to complete the necessary development work. When using a relatively complex language like Rust, the model makes almost no mistakes. The few errors that do occur require only one or two simple corrections to produce highly usable results.

While marveling at the tremendous impact of the open source model on this generation of technology, as a writer in the field of education, I feel this is a good opportunity to discuss the influence of this technological leap on education and the changes we need to make.

This is a topic I have discussed at length with NovaDNG. We have had many debates and fantasies about it. Just a few months ago, we decided to turn those wild ideas into reality. Rune, a project aimed at recreating the essence of Zune using modern technology stacks, was kicked off.

In fact, I've attempted to develop a player more than once, but my limited technical skills and overly picky technical taste led to two or three abandoned projects. However, with the emergence of powerful models like GPT and Claude, building a "space rocket" is no longer an unattainable dream. If you’ve read the development report of Alice Run!, you should have an idea of how astonishingly these large language models can solve development problems.

Riding this wave, I spent the past few months developing at a nearly frenetic pace.

During the May Day holiday, I started tinkering with some quirky stuff again. This time, I built a motion-controlled visual novel system powered by Joy-Con controllers and PC.

This project actually began two years ago. I've played many "motion games" on the Switch, and they're all fun. However, none achieved my ideal of "controllable aerobic exercise," so I thought, why not make one myself? In fact, I had a very successful "weight loss experience" once in my life.

During a winter break in middle school, a chubby kid who couldn't do any sports successfully flattened his protruding belly and became a genuine "skinny monkey." The method was incredibly simple: run in place while watching TV, one hour a day, for a whole month. When I put on clothes at the start of the new semester, I discovered that all the "fat" on my body had disappeared.

It all started with a bet between my classmate and me at home - who would collapse first from running in place for an hour. The process wasn't tiring at all, just pure sweating. This was probably the first time in my life that exercise triggered endorphin release and gave me a sense of "happiness." Since there was no uncomfortable "gasping for breath" feeling, I stuck with it.