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Cong Wang
Personal blog · wangcong.orgprogrammingsystemsculture
Cong Wang writes A Geek’s Page, a personal blog at wangcong.org about programming, systems and culture. Since 2026, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Personal Taste Is the Moat”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cong Wang's blog, linked for posts on LLM world models versus word models and on personal taste as a moat in software and AI-era code. One commenter calls a world-model piece a really good summary.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Cong Wang’s Personal Blog Posts
Most-linked posts?
- Personal Taste Is the Moat3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-01-14
- Why I Stopped Arguing with People2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-07-01
What Hacker News says?
The blog goes back to 2007. Every single post made prior to ChatGPT has a very strong irreverent sense of humour as well as specific Chinese-English phrases. If you speak to Chinese migrants/colleagues/suppliers you'll recognise it immediately: https://wangcong.org/2009/04/09/got-a-new-job/ https://wangcong.org/2019-03-14-how-to-pretend-to-be-a-linux... https://wangcong.org/2008/12/25/when-i-was-in-portugal/ Then ma…
Comment linking /2026-06-30-why-i-stopped-arguing-with-people.html
on “Why I Stopped Arguing with People”Submitted Why I Stopped Arguing with People as a story · 94 points
HN discussionThis article is a really good summary of current thinking on the “world model” conundrum that a lot of people are talking about, either directly or indirectly with respect to current day deployments of LLMs. It synthesizes comments on “RL Environments” ( https://ankitmaloo.com/rl-env/ ), “World Models” ( https://ankitmaloo.com/world-models/ ) and the real reason that the “Google Game Arena” ( https://blog.google/inn…
Comment linking /2026-01-13-personal-taste-is-the-moat.html
on “Experts Have World Models. LLMs Have Word Models”Submitted Personal Taste Is the Moat as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLarge scale AI deployment has led to a complete change in what signal code actually conveys and what it means for maintainers. Code is no longer a yardstick for effort, care or expertise. If anything a large amount of it can be the opposite. I read an article a while ago about how “taste is a moat” ( https://wangcong.org/2026-01-13-personal-taste-is-the-moat.h... ) and it kind of applies here. In that article a tech…
Comment linking /2026-01-13-personal-taste-is-the-moat.html
on “Stay Away from My Trash”Submitted Personal Taste Is the Moat as a story · 1 points
HN discussion