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Session Amnesia: The Hidden Cost of Stateless AI Coding Assistants
AI coding assistants start every session fresh. In one production workflow, a known constraint cost $66-90 to rediscover. This practitioner case study names the failure mode, diagnoses three root causes, and proposes a five-layer framework.
Yanbing Li
May 185 min read


You're Not Talking to a Model — You're Talking to a Harness
A working vocabulary for AI: Context, Memory, Tools, Skills, Harness, Agent. Most debates about AI tools focus on the model — that's maybe 30% of what matters.
Yanbing Li
Apr 1812 min read


AI-Augmented Traceability at Industrial Scale: Lessons from SANER 2026
Today, I presented our work on AI-augmented requirements traceability at the SANER 2026 Industry Track in Limassol, Cyprus. The paper, co-authored with Chengrong Lu and Lifu Gong of Molex, is now published in IEEE proceedings. The central question we explored was simple: can AI meaningfully improve traceability in real industrial systems in practice? Why Traceability Often Doesn't Happen In large-scale systems, traceability is widely recognized as critical — for quality, comp
Yanbing Li
Mar 193 min read


Thoughts on Reading Dario Amodei’s Essay: Human Co-Existence Is the Real Long-Horizon Work
I recently read Dario Amodei’s latest essay " The Adolescence of Technology". What stayed with me was less a sense of alarm, more a sense of recognition. His central argument is measured and thoughtful: as AI capabilities advance rapidly, human systems are struggling to keep pace. The answer, he suggests, is to exercise restraint at the frontier, where increasingly autonomous and general capabilities scale risk non-linearly, while becoming far more intentional about how AI
Yanbing Li
Jan 273 min read


Speak to Impact: How to Elevate Your Voice in Meetings
You may be one speak away from your next opportunity. Meetings are where careers rise, stall, or go unnoticed. We often treat them as routine, even though they're leadership stages . The way you show up in the meeting — what you say, how you say it, and what others remember — shapes how people perceive your credibility, clarity, and leadership potential. So how do we speak in meetings to create impact? It starts with intention. And a willingness to evolve . My Journey: From S
Yanbing Li
Jun 16, 20255 min read


Behind the Name: Why "iSterna"
When it came time to name our company, we knew we didn’t want something ordinary. We wanted a name that carried meaning—capturing both...
Yanbing Li
May 4, 20252 min read
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