--- title: Pan YANG description: "The personal website of Pan YANG: background, writing, projects, events, and everyday tools." canonical: https://yangpan.com/en language: en section: home --- # Pan YANG The personal website of Pan YANG: background, writing, projects, events, and everyday tools. ## About (en) I’m Pan YANG. On social media, I often use the name “杨攀同学” (Yang Pan Tongxue). I’m currently building Bilink and running Next Token｜词元之外, an AI video podcast. [More about me](https://yangpan.com/en/about.md) ## Projects - [Bilink](https://yangpan.com/en/projects/bilink.md) — The startup I’m currently building. (en) - [Phabricator Simplified Chinese](https://yangpan.com/en/projects/phabricator-zh-hans.md) — Simplified Chinese translations and tools for Phabricator. (en) - [AI Coding Stack](https://yangpan.com/en/projects/aicodingstack.md) — An open-source directory and comparison site for AI coding tools, models, and platforms. (en) - [SiliconFlow](https://yangpan.com/en/projects/siliconflow.md) — Former co-founder of SiliconFlow, responsible for growth, marketing, branding, ecosystem initiatives, operations, and international business. (en) - [markast](https://yangpan.com/en/projects/markast.md) — A Markdown renderer written in Rust and distributed through npm. (en) - [RongCloud](https://yangpan.com/en/projects/rongcloud.md) — Co-founder and former CTO of RongCloud; led the design and development of its instant messaging cloud platform. (en) - [any2md](https://yangpan.com/en/projects/any2md.md) — A command-line tool for converting web pages to Markdown. (en) - [Next Token｜词元之外](https://yangpan.com/en/projects/next-token.md) — Weekly conversations with Guizang, Juzi, and Xiangyang Qiaomu about AI technology, products, and their real-world impact. (en) - [wechat2markdown](https://yangpan.com/en/projects/wechat2markdown.md) — A tool for converting WeChat public-account articles to Markdown. (en) ## Writing - [Who decides which large language model ranks first?](https://yangpan.com/en/blog/model-rankings.md) — An article on large language model rankings, first published on the WeChat Official Account “杨攀同学” (Yang Pan Tongxue). (en) Published on: 2026-09-27 - [Consensus and non-consensus in the first half of 2026](https://yangpan.com/en/blog/consensus-2026.md) — From context and model capabilities to software and organizational structures, based on a talk at the 43 College alumni gathering. (en) Published on: 2026-08-23 - [Software is frozen; the harness is alive](https://yangpan.com/en/blog/harness-is-alive.md) — Starting with the Ship of Theseus, a discussion of harnesses that evolve at runtime and the relationship between software and agents. (en) Published on: 2026-08-17 - [Context is the agent: the next battle in AI products is over context](https://yangpan.com/en/blog/context-is-agent.md) — As models and harnesses converge, how does context define the limits of an agent’s capabilities? (en) Published on: 2026-06-30 - [The digital world: the web in the US, apps in China](https://yangpan.com/en/blog/web-and-app.md) — Observations on differences between internet product formats in China and the US. (en) Published on: 2024-04-06 - [A tech entrepreneur’s year-end reading list for 2022](https://yangpan.com/en/blog/reading-2022.md) — Reading notes and a year-end book list from 2022. (en) Published on: 2022-12-31 - [Taking Chinese cloud services global? Start with a status page](https://yangpan.com/en/blog/status-page.md) — Cloud services going global and transparency about availability: why a status page matters. (en) Published on: 2022-12-20 - [A developer’s guide to asking questions in a community](https://yangpan.com/en/blog/community-questions.md) — How to ask effective questions and get help in technical communities. (en) Published on: 2022-06-13 ## Press - [Stop building software for humans! The biggest opportunity in 2026 is building infrastructure for agents](https://yangpan.com/en/press/agent-infrastructure.md) — A write-up of a talk on infrastructure for agents, published by InfoQ. (en) Published on: 2026-02-05 - [AI infrastructure: key insights and trends](https://yangpan.com/en/press/ai-infra-insights.md) — A write-up of a talk at Convo AI & RTE 2025, published by SiliconFlow. (en) Published on: 2025-11-11 - [Former RongCloud CTO Pan YANG joins Taos Data](https://yangpan.com/en/press/joining-taos.md) — InfoQ’s report on joining Taos Data to lead strategic partnerships and the developer ecosystem. (en) Published on: 2022-02-11 - [For managers, deciding what not to do takes more courage](https://yangpan.com/en/press/management-decisions.md) — A TGO interview published by InfoQ about building RongCloud, products, and management. (en) Published on: 2021-11-26 ## Events - [AI infrastructure: who is it for, and why build it?](https://yangpan.com/en/events/convo-ai-2025.md) — A talk in the Real-Time AI Infra track at Convo AI & RTE 2025 in Beijing. (en) Event date: 2025-11-01 - [Building communities for technology and the future](https://yangpan.com/en/events/gtlc-2022.md) — Co-chair of GTLC Beijing 2022, delivering the opening talk alongside Huo Taiwen. (en) Event date: 2022-08-26 - [Data-driven practices for improving communication quality](https://yangpan.com/en/events/wicc-2019.md) — A talk and panel discussion at WICC 2019 in Shanghai. (en) Event date: 2019-11-30 ## Uses - [Recording and notes](https://yangpan.com/en/uses/recording-tools.md) — DJI Pocket, phone recordings, and flomo. (en) Recorded on: 2026-08-24 - [AI coding and video editing](https://yangpan.com/en/uses/coding-tools.md) — Codex and FFmpeg. (en) - [Voice input](https://yangpan.com/en/uses/voice-input.md) — Typeless and WeChat Input. (en)