A few stickers helped Bo Li expose a weakness in machine vision. Her work has since moved from road signs to language models, a startup, and the question of who controls an AI agent with permission to act.

From a Reddit bot for bewildered students to a catalog of prompt patterns for large language models, Pai's public work reveals a practical instinct: make complicated systems easier to ask, search, and use.

The Avea Robotics co-founder is betting that robots will reach the real world through better operations, not prettier demos - one remote intervention at a time.

After an early product stalled, the engineer-turned-founder left the dashboard, crossed 13 states and learned to look for industrial software problems on the floor.