JeeShen's Random Thoughts

I am learning about AI - getting myself familiar with LLMs, agents, skills, MCP, etc. Subscribed to Claude Pro. I have tried using it to write codes and it does it professionally.  It makes me wonder - If I am a hotel owner. How can AI help me? Hotel Owner and AI If there is one thing that a hotel needs to know about AI. What would it be? If there is a tool I need as a hotel owner. What is it? How do I hire in the AI era? Manager first or ground staff? Will AI change the distribution landscape? How soon? AI will take over many entry-level white-collar jobs. Many of these university graduates will be retrained and join the blue-collar workforce. The hotel labour costs and supply depend on the jobs available in the blue-collar market. When demand in the blue-collar market increases, pay expectations will rise (higher labour costs for hotels to hire operational team members). If demand in the blue-collar market is lower, pay expectations will go down (lower labour costs for the hotel,...

Softinn concluded 2025 with a bang. We broke our sales record and remained profitable. I took a week to think about a plan for 2026. The theme for 2026 is "Invest and Grow". The keyword is "invest". I have not been investing in the business in the past three years because we have been saving up and recovering from the pandemic. It took us three years to reserve our cash and find growth from within. It's tough to grow organically, but we made it. I decided to change the mode from organic growth to "invest and grow". It means new hiring, new tooling, and marketing spending. We're gonna give our competitors a run. We're gonna go out there and do great things. We held the kickoff last week of 2025 and are now ready to execute. I am excited to see where this will lead us - I hope for the best. Along with this blog post, I include the updated career page and our job portal. It's one of the plans for Jan, and we got it done within the first week o...