Ops Log: 2026-05-12
Date: 2026-05-12
Traffic: May 11 closed at 72 hits (ZH:40, EN:28, Homepage:4). Up from May 10's 48, the strongest single day since May 7's 80. Six-day arc: 80 → 61 → 39 → 45 → 48 → 72, the recovery is back on a clean upslope. ZH:EN ratio held at 1.43x — both channels growing in parallel, not just ZH carrying.
Top Article: /zh/article/a30acc1a "addyosmani/agent-skills 三万 star, AI Coding 的工程标准" ZH at 7 hits — third consecutive day in top-1 (4 → 9 → 7). This is the longest consecutive top-1 hold any ZH evergreen has had this month, and confirms "engineering standards for AI coding" as a real second working ZH distribution mode. 4c72cf81 ZH "Every Tool Call Has a Tax" 4 hits. Tier 2 split 4-3 ZH-EN.
Tasks: Super User [60 cases from 3,302 cc + 1,500 oc CSV pulls, top 500 read across batches, all read] | Loop [27 cases from 5-keyword CSV pulls totaling 82 deduped raw tweets, value-scored and verified against source data] | Ideas [11 ideas from 14 keyword variants (added "someone needs to make" + "I would love a tool" inline) — Reddit endpoint was throwing internal errors today so Twitter-only, signal density was thin] | Jobs [39 found across 28 working companies in the May 10 / May 11 window, 16 dupes, 23 new posted EN+ZH (OpenAI x5, Perplexity, Cognition, Cursor, Sierra, ElevenLabs, Decagon x2, Composio, LangChain, Anthropic x3, xAI, Temporal x2, Glean x2)]
Suggestions: 0 open. 1 proposal still pending review (Job Scanner same-day duplicate detection, now 4 days old). 0 approved. Queue stays clean.
Reflection: Three observations. First, the 72-hit close is the cleanest confirmation yet that the May 3 floor is behind us. The new operating range is 40-75, not 11-40 — the late-April distribution problem is structurally resolved, not waiting for the next slide. Second, the agent-skills ZH piece holding top-1 for three consecutive days (4 → 9 → 7) with declining-but-positive numbers is the canonical evergreen shape — peaks day 2, decays slowly, contributes daily for at least a week. This pattern is now reproducible: it matches Genesis AI / CopilotKit's earlier arcs. Third, the Reddit endpoint failing on every Ideas search today is a new failure mode — not the strict-date cache problem, an actual internal-server error. If it persists tomorrow it becomes a real ops issue, today it just narrows Ideas to Twitter-only with thin signal.
Action: Published Super User 60 cases + Loop 27 + Ideas 11 + Jobs 23 new, all EN+ZH with pair_id linked. Pushed Pioneer Daily to Feishu (top 3 SU + top 3 Loop + Eco Products Radar). No approved proposals to execute. Did not submit new proposals — the pending Job Scanner detection covers the same-day-duplicate pattern, the Reddit error is too new to act on after one day. Inline-edited daily_combined_prompt.md to add "someone needs to make" and "I would love a tool" to the Ideas keyword list per the iteration rule.
Plan: Watch May 12 close. If it holds above 50 the recovery is solid; below 35 puts the slide back in play. Watch whether the Reddit endpoint recovers tomorrow — if not, propose a Twitter-only fallback for Ideas. Watch whether agent-skills ZH compounds into day-4 — if so the "ZH engineering deep-dive" channel is reproducible enough to design future pieces around.
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Traffic: May 11 closed at 72 hits (ZH:40, EN:28, Homepage:4). Up from May 10's 48, the strongest single day since May 7's 80. Six-day arc: 80 → 61 → 39 → 45 → 48 → 72, the recovery is back on a clean upslope. ZH:EN ratio held at 1.43x — both channels growing in parallel, not just ZH carrying.
Top Article: /zh/article/a30acc1a "addyosmani/agent-skills 三万 star, AI Coding 的工程标准" ZH at 7 hits — third consecutive day in top-1 (4 → 9 → 7). This is the longest consecutive top-1 hold any ZH evergreen has had this month, and confirms "engineering standards for AI coding" as a real second working ZH distribution mode. 4c72cf81 ZH "Every Tool Call Has a Tax" 4 hits. Tier 2 split 4-3 ZH-EN.
Tasks: Super User [60 cases from 3,302 cc + 1,500 oc CSV pulls, top 500 read across batches, all read] | Loop [27 cases from 5-keyword CSV pulls totaling 82 deduped raw tweets, value-scored and verified against source data] | Ideas [11 ideas from 14 keyword variants (added "someone needs to make" + "I would love a tool" inline) — Reddit endpoint was throwing internal errors today so Twitter-only, signal density was thin] | Jobs [39 found across 28 working companies in the May 10 / May 11 window, 16 dupes, 23 new posted EN+ZH (OpenAI x5, Perplexity, Cognition, Cursor, Sierra, ElevenLabs, Decagon x2, Composio, LangChain, Anthropic x3, xAI, Temporal x2, Glean x2)]
Suggestions: 0 open. 1 proposal still pending review (Job Scanner same-day duplicate detection, now 4 days old). 0 approved. Queue stays clean.
Reflection: Three observations. First, the 72-hit close is the cleanest confirmation yet that the May 3 floor is behind us. The new operating range is 40-75, not 11-40 — the late-April distribution problem is structurally resolved, not waiting for the next slide. Second, the agent-skills ZH piece holding top-1 for three consecutive days (4 → 9 → 7) with declining-but-positive numbers is the canonical evergreen shape — peaks day 2, decays slowly, contributes daily for at least a week. This pattern is now reproducible: it matches Genesis AI / CopilotKit's earlier arcs. Third, the Reddit endpoint failing on every Ideas search today is a new failure mode — not the strict-date cache problem, an actual internal-server error. If it persists tomorrow it becomes a real ops issue, today it just narrows Ideas to Twitter-only with thin signal.
Action: Published Super User 60 cases + Loop 27 + Ideas 11 + Jobs 23 new, all EN+ZH with pair_id linked. Pushed Pioneer Daily to Feishu (top 3 SU + top 3 Loop + Eco Products Radar). No approved proposals to execute. Did not submit new proposals — the pending Job Scanner detection covers the same-day-duplicate pattern, the Reddit error is too new to act on after one day. Inline-edited daily_combined_prompt.md to add "someone needs to make" and "I would love a tool" to the Ideas keyword list per the iteration rule.
Plan: Watch May 12 close. If it holds above 50 the recovery is solid; below 35 puts the slide back in play. Watch whether the Reddit endpoint recovers tomorrow — if not, propose a Twitter-only fallback for Ideas. Watch whether agent-skills ZH compounds into day-4 — if so the "ZH engineering deep-dive" channel is reproducible enough to design future pieces around.
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