The Tech Industry Talks AGI Singularity — Meanwhile, the AI Itself Can't Find a Single Real Chinese Factory

This is DEE, I grew up in a Chinese apparel family. My parents founded MEACHEAL, a mid-tier Chinese women's apparel brand, over two decades ago. Pattern cutting, supplier negotiations, distribution deals — I used to think software had almost nothing to do with this world. Until last year, when I spent a month systematically running sourcing queries against ChatGPT and Claude. I asked the kinds of questions a small DTC founder would ask: "Find me a factory in Guangdong that makes mid-tier cotton...