My 2026 AI Adventure

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, or the hotel gets better talent for the same cost). I believe that eventually, the hotel will see fluctuations between the two states as the market swings and adapts over the next two years.
• The Malaysian government's initiative in focusing on TVET education is a smart move. But I believe it's hard to change the social status of blue-collar roles in the general perception. While promoting good TVET courses, I think the more important and urgent issue is changing the public perception of this career.
• I believe the adoption of AI will be mainly driven by guest-facing applications. This will be the main theme in the first phase.

My Log

• Jan-17: I have been busy asking questions on Claude and ChatGPT. Most of my questions focus on learning and understanding the new technology. I use it to research and plan, too. I am so excited that I wake up at 6am, and my mind is all awake and focused on learning. Learning has never been so easy. It works very well with my learning style.
• Jan-24: I tried Claude Code, and I noticed it does a better job in web programming than in desktop programming. That is probably more web programming inputs that go into the training of the LLM. It is scary, at the same time exciting, to enter the AI era. I feel more of the scary part now, as there are a lot of uncertainties about how the SaaS business will be affected. I believe it will stay, but I am not sure about the people working in it - AI era requires a new set of skills. Those who can't adapt will be replaced. It's going to be challenging for IT graduates now. It's hard to get an internship now because AI agents do what was previously assigned to interns. Given the trend of fewer new hires in the product department, I believe an expert shortage will boomerang in another two years as veterans move up the ladder and some retire. This will make experienced programmers expensive and hard to hire within two years. It is better for a company like mine to hire, train and keep the good ones.
• Jan-26: I have installed Ralph plugin (the official Anthropic plugin), and I thought that's it. Then, I realise there is a better implementation of Ralph - Ralph for Claude Code. Looks like there are just so many things happening in the AI space. One way to be very good is to follow the latest news (on X) and then test them as I go. Luckily, I have bought a 1TB HDD for my laptop, and it's useful now. I expect to go through many install/test/uninstall cycles as new tools come up every day. Speaking of which, I have installed Antigravity today. Planning to use it alongside VS Code and VS 2026.

... This is an ongoing blog post. It is a note that I will update as I make progress.