This blog is where I keep notes on things I learn, along with occasional essays, reflections, and personal stories. Unless otherwise stated, all posts are original and may not be reproduced.
Launched a Multi-Agent Web-Novel Writing Toolkit
A while after open-sourcing Video Studio Skills , I put together a sister project: Novel Studio Skills . It’s a multi-agent web-novel writing toolkit built for tools like Claude Code , Codex, and Hermes Agent . Simply put, it lets you form a virtual novel studio with six AI agents that take a story from project planning, worldbuilding, outlines, and setting cards all the way through to the manuscript, the final edit, and cover illustrations. You only need to hand it a rough concept. ...
Launched a Multi-Agent Video Creation Toolkit
I recently open-sourced a new project: Video Studio Skills . It’s a multi-agent video creation toolkit built for Hermes Agent . Simply put, it lets you form a virtual video studio with 7 AI agents, taking over the entire workflow—from in-depth research, scriptwriting, and TTS voiceovers to Remotion animation rendering and multi-platform SEO packaging. Why Build This Tool As AI capabilities continue to improve, creating short videos with AI has become incredibly easy. Nowadays, we can frequently scroll through various AI-generated videos on TikTok or Bilibili. However, whether it’s the advanced Seedance 2.0 or Gemini omni, they share common issues like slow generation speeds and difficulty in control. Sometimes, to generate a satisfactory video, we have to repeatedly roll the dice, constantly picking and splicing, which consumes a vast amount of time—let alone mass-producing short videos. ...
On the Eve of the AI Revolution, I Finally Understood the Preface to the Orchid Pavilion
This afternoon, the house was very quiet. My wife and child were asleep in the bedroom. The child was born last year and is still very small; when asleep, there is a kind of completely unguarded peace on that little face. My parents are still healthy, too. Three generations of the family can still live together like this, safe and sound. There was nothing dramatic about the day. It was an ordinary weekend, so ordinary that if a certain feeling had not suddenly arrived, I might have forgotten it very soon. ...
I Launched a Severance Pay Calculator
I recently launched a small tool: SeveranceGO-CN: China Severance Pay Calculator . The source code is also on GitHub: masonblog/SeveranceGO-CN . Its purpose is straightforward. After you enter information such as the start and end dates of employment, last year’s income, the place where the employment contract was performed, whether a written contract was signed, and the reason for departure, the tool estimates statutory severance, damages for unlawful termination, payment in lieu of notice, and the possible double-wage range for failure to sign a written employment contract. ...
With AI, I Built a Provincial Leave Policy Lookup Site
The Impulse: A Law Student’s “Improper Side Quest” As a corporate lawyer, I spend much of my day dealing with statutes, regulations, and relatives or friends who come to me with legal questions. One of the topics people ask about most often is employment law. Local leave policies in particular—how many days of marriage leave, how long maternity leave lasts, and so on—are questions almost everyone eventually runs into. A while ago, a friend moved to a company in Shenzhen and asked me, “How many days of paternity leave does Shenzhen actually give? Everything online is a mess.” I looked around and found that he was right. There is one set of national rules, and then every province has its own local supplements. The information is scattered across human resources department websites, government gazettes, and local regulations. There was no single place where you could compare everything at a glance. ...