Canghu Speaks: The Ten Months of 2026, People in AI Anxiety, and Me

Canghu reviews industry observations from the first ten months of 2026: his April article "Distillation" reached nearly one million reads across the web, responding to the widespread anxiety at the time about Agents and skills; afterward, OpenClaw, Agents, and skills rapidly moved downmarket to zero-threshold use. The author's on-the-ground visits found that AI has also spread in remote mountainous areas, but the capability gap between beginners and veteran users may be widened, and he proposes that AI's core groups and commercialization are heading toward an "i-shaped divergence."