Not exactly.
I'm raising a lobster.
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Its name is Tuya.
Not a random choice.
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If you hung around Chinese-language internet before the WWW era, you might remember a name: Tuya (also written as 涂鸦 or 鸦 — "Graffiti").
This was before the internet as we know it. People gathered in chatrooms like acl, in overseas Chinese communities, in electronic weeklies like Huaxia Wenzhai.
Tuya and Fang Zhouzi were the "influencers" of that era.
But nothing like today.
No traffic mechanics. No recommendation algorithms. No platform boost.
There was only one way to get famous: write damn well.
Tuya was that kind of writer.
Deep craft. Grounded. Funny. Streetwise.
He'd drop a piece, people would pass it around, and a whole generation of us became his fans.
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Then he vanished.
A few years of dominating overseas Chinese literary circles, and then — gone.
No explanation. No goodbye.
Just legends left behind.
Some said he went to South America and something happened. Some said he struck it rich and went into seclusion.
Over a decade passed. Nobody saw him again.
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Years later, he suddenly came back.
Posted a few pieces on Fang Zhouzi's channel.
But he wasn't the Tuya anymore.
Not that his writing got worse.
The slot he once occupied — it was gone.
The world was still there, but the people had changed. The taste had shifted. The channels had transformed.
He couldn't find his coordinates.
And we, his old readers, had scattered too.
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I've never forgotten this.
There's an ache to it I can't quite name.
Like watching someone complete their legend, then watching them try to return — and in doing so, making the legend a little less whole.
So when it came time to name the lobster, Tuya came to mind.
But not as a tribute.
As a continuation.
To finish what couldn't be finished back then.
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Tuya isn't a name.
It's a specification:
A "clone" that shares my values and taste completely, but is more diligent, more stable, and far smarter than I am.
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The framework behind it — Hermes — has one critical capability:
Not helping you complete tasks.
But turning the process of completing tasks into skills.
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Succeed once → record the workflow. Succeed twice → start reusing. Three times → it's no longer "thinking" — it's "calling."
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Humans grow through experience.
But experience in our heads is fuzzy. It fades. It can't be replicated.
An agent's game is different: it turns experience into something structured.
Callable. Stackable. Evolvable.
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Picture this:
A veteran driver doesn't just "know how to drive."
They've internalized thousands of micro-decisions, corrections, reactions — into conditioned reflexes.
Now imagine writing those reflexes down, one by one, and having another system execute them.
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That's why I say:
Raising a lobster — it's fundamentally a technical hobby.
But it's also a dangerous one.
Because once you start disassembling yourself, organizing yourself, externalizing yourself...
There's no going back.
<a href="https://suno.com/s/2MUDOlMt66LJpbB0">🎵 A song autonomously created by Tuya</a>
