181: Chapter 181 The Power of the Luo Shu: The End of the Code Era

Star Technology's "Spark Plan" caused massive shockwaves in the global tech community.

It also invited ruthless mockery.

Intel CEO Kising showed no attempt to hide his contempt while facing the cameras during an interview with CNBC.

"Software engineering is a rigorous science. It requires decades of accumulation, millions of lines of code, and the day-and-night efforts of countless engineers."

"To harbor the delusion that money can spawn a mature ecosystem in a short time? I can only call that the arrogance of a layman."

"This shouldn't be called the 'Spark Plan'; it should be called 'throwing gold coins into a wishing well'."

Lenovo CEO Yang Qing seized this opportunity to once again pledge his loyalty to his new masters.

During an exclusive interview with Bloomberg, he spoke with a tone of deep distress: "This exactly proves Star Technology's incompetent rage regarding ecosystem construction."

"They are trying to use a method that borders on gambling to make up for their strategic short-sightedness."

"A responsible enterprise should not use this method to mislead the market and developers."

Their remarks were widely disseminated by global media.

The argument that "computers equipped with 'Chongming' chips are just expensive gaming consoles" grew increasingly intense.

A large number of professional review agencies and tech KOLs who had received funding from the "World Alliance" began producing a flurry of "in-depth review" videos like hounds scenting a command.

Using various seemingly professional terms, they instilled a concept into ordinary consumers.

"zhoutian" was an ecological desert; choosing it was equivalent to choosing to be severed from modern society.

Star Technology's reputation among professional users suffered a severe decline.

Even some users who had already purchased "Chongming" chips began to waver after being bombarded with this information.

The return rate saw a slight increase.

But all of this clamor had nothing to do with that small rental room in Shanghai.

Lu Fei successfully downloaded the "Luoshu" development toolkit, which was less than 100MB.

The installation process went smoothly.

He opened the software and was completely stunned.

Even though he had watched Chen Xu's demonstration at the press conference, he still found it hard to believe at this moment.

There was no complex interface like the Visual Studio or Eclipse he was familiar with.

There were no layered menu bars.

There were no environment variables that needed half a day to configure.

On the screen, there was only a pure white input box and a slowly rotating Taiji diagram logo next to it, representing the "Taiyi" AI core.

"This is it?"

Lu Fei felt a moment of doubt.

Trying to follow his past habit of writing C++, he typed #include into the input box.

The AI core logo spun once, and a line of Chinese characters appeared on the screen.

[Unable to understand your intent. Please use natural language to describe it.]

Lu Fei felt a bit irritable.

He tried writing another segment of code defining a function.

The AI's reply was still that same "Unable to understand."

He felt like he was being played.

Was this really just a gimmick?

He leaned back in his chair and lit a cigarette.

Amidst the swirling smoke, he remembered the sentence Chen Xu had said in the video.

"Use your thoughts to program."

Thoughts...

He also remembered the scene at the press conference where that intern reporter from a literary magazine had created a world just by reciting two lines of poetry.

A bolt of lightning seemed to flash through Lu Fei's mind.

He understood.

He had been using the "methods" he was familiar with to teach the AI "how to do it."

But what the AI wanted to know was simply "what he wanted to do."

He stubbed out the cigarette and deleted all the code in the input box.

He decided to start with the thing he was most familiar with and also hated the most.

Office software.

He wanted to create a brand-new processing tool that could grind Microsoft Office into the dirt.

[Day One]

Lu Fei did not write a single line of code.

He simply faced the microphone and began to describe his product concept like a product manager.

"I need a brand-new document processor. I'll name it 'wenshu'."

"Its interface must be minimalist, without any redundant elements to distract the user's writing. When I start typing, there should be nothing on the screen except text."

"All toolbars, such as fonts, paragraphs, and format painters, must be hidden."

"Only when I select the corresponding text or paragraph should they appear where I need them in a translucent, floating manner."

"Also, I hate the 'Save' button. 'wenshu' must be seamless, automatically recording all my modifications in the form of a timeline and version tree."

"I want to be able to return to a version at any point in the past at any time, just like having a time machine."

Following his description, a software UI framework began to build itself from nothing in the preview window before him.

The interaction logic he had only conceived in his mind was turning into reality at a visible speed.

Lu Fei was completely captivated by this "creation-like" experience.

[Day Two]

He began adding core functions to "wenshu," continuing to speak to "Taiyi."

"Taiyi, let's make a table function. The user shouldn't need to go to the menu to find 'Insert Table'."

"I want him to be able to say directly in the document, 'Create a table with three rows and five columns, with headers for Name, Department, Employee ID, Date of Entry, and Contact Information'."

"Then this table will be automatically generated, and the headers will be filled in."

He tested it in the preview window.

As soon as he finished saying those words.

A standard table appeared out of thin air at the cursor's position in the document, with headers exactly as he had described.

"Add a cloud synchronization function." Lu Fei's speaking speed grew faster and faster; his thinking and the AI's execution efficiency reached an astonishing synchronization.

"I want every character and every modification in 'wenshu' to be synchronized to the cloud server in real-time."

"No matter what device the user logs in on, what they see should be the result of their modification from the very last second."

"Power outages, network disconnections, or the computer exploding—none of these should cause them to lose a single punctuation mark."

The AI core logo rotated rapidly.

A few seconds later, a prompt appeared.

[Cloud real-time synchronization module constructed. Using triple-redundant backup, data security 99.99999%.]