Gemini 3 (English Translation)

Sleeper stair construction with the Sect construction division.
It’s getting quite cold outside.

Manager Hirano is a pro once he hops on heavy machinery.
Even if he’s leaning back in his office chair now, AI will likely drive him out of a job in 5 years, so this skill is essential.

So, it’s finally out. The big one…
Gemini 3.

The specs have improved dramatically. What surprised me the most was its text reading capability.
I think the performance has improved by probably more than 5 times that of GPT.

This blog, which I’ve been writing since 2005, consists of over 4,500 posts and more than 2 million characters of text data, but Gemini 3 read and learned it all in an instant.
With this, it becomes possible to create a “fake agent” version of me. Until now, it was difficult because I couldn’t make it learn all the text at once. But now, it can reflect my 20 years of thinking directly onto housing worries and consultations. It becomes possible to access my knowledge even if you hate me.
After all, wide as the industry is, there probably isn’t another blog out there where someone has kept speaking their honest truth for 4,500 posts over 20 years.

So,
I played around a bit with the data I fed it.
I had it write a 20-year trajectory, create a collection of quotes…

And when I ordered it to turn it into a book, it wrote up a prologue in 1 minute and said,
“Shall we proceed like this?”

No additions or corrections were made below.
So there are some odd parts, but to get this proposal in 1 minute… I was astonished.

Book: “Thus Spoke the Loser of the Industry.”
~The Complete 20-Year Record of a Kitami Builder Old Man Discarding “New Construction” to Gain “Freedom”~

【Prologue】 From Kitami in 2025 ~The Victory of Withdrawal~

1. “2-Year Wait” Queue Discarded Day
November 2025. Kitami, Hokkaido. Outside the window, the merciless snow is about to pile up again this year. If this were me 20 years ago, my stomach would have hurt just looking at this snow. “How is the site curing going?” “Is the snow removal arranged?”—my head would have been constantly in combat mode. But now, sipping hot coffee, I just quietly watch the whiteness. Why? Because I am no longer on the “battlefield.” My name is Kunio Ohira. In this freezing land of Kitami, I have run a construction shop called “Evo Home” for 25 years. To toot my own horn, the houses I built were popular. Customers saying “I want to build with Evo Home” never ceased, and we were constantly in a state of a “2-year wait.” For a small local builder, that should have been proof of “success.” It was a situation anyone would envy. Even if I stayed silent, work came in, money came in, and fame was gained. If I had kept going like that, I would have likely welcomed old age as a “secure local celebrity.” However, in the winter of 2022. I brought down the curtain on that queue with my own hands. “I have become a loser of the industry. I will build no more.” I declared this on my blog and decided to completely withdraw from the new construction business. It wasn’t because I got sick. It wasn’t because I had debt. It wasn’t because my popularity dropped. At the very peak, when things were going best, I stepped out of the ring. Those around me were in an uproar. “Have you gone mad?” “What a waste,” they said. But now, 3 years after that day, I am convinced. That decision was the greatest “victory” of my life.

2. Why I Quit
There are several reasons. Soaring material costs due to the Wood Shock, the aging of craftsmen, the decline of the country called Japan… I could line up any number of plausible reasons. But the real reason is simpler and more selfish. “I wanted to be free.” That’s all. I have always been resisting something. Against the industry’s bad common sense that “cheap is good.” Against the resignation that “It’s natural for houses in Kitami to be cold.” And above all, against the fake business custom that “The customer is God.” I fought. While the salesman from the housing manufacturer showed beautiful catalogs, I, covered in wood chips at the site, spat poison: “A house like that will rot in 10 years.” I preached to customers seeking trendy designs, “Put in insulation rather than that stuff.” I refused jobs from customers who wouldn’t install a wood stove. In that way, for 20 years, I kept building only the “houses I believed in.” As a result, I was blessed with 110 owners who were like “comrades.” That is my pride. But battles need an end. I could no longer permit myself, under my own aesthetics, to sell things I couldn’t be convinced of at prices I couldn’t be convinced of amidst soaring material costs. I have done enough of whittling down my soul to build houses. That is why I chose to return to being a single human being named “Kunio Ohira” before being the old man of a construction shop.

3. The Blog as a “Testament”
I had one habit. Since February 2005, before the word “blog” was even common, I kept scribbling my daily work and emotions on the internet. “Today was this kind of site.” “I got angry because that kind of customer came.” “I found an amazing material called Moiss.” Begun not to show anyone, but just to vent my frustration or as a memorandum, that diary continued for 20 years before I knew it, exceeding 4,500 entries. The other day, using a convenient toy called AI, I tried rereading all this massive text. There was a surprising “drama” there. The young me, biting at the industry with passion born of ignorance. The middle-aged me, beginning to have confidence in my skills and becoming arrogant. And the mature me, gradually beginning to realize the essence of a “house”—something deeper, beyond performance and design. This is not just a record of a construction shop. It was the “pilgrimage of a soul” itself, where one craftsman worried, got angry, laughed, and attained enlightenment.

4. Listen to the Loser’s Howl
This book selects particularly “me-like” articles from those 4,500 blog posts and adds commentary from my current perspective. There are no beautiful success laws written here. There is only the muddy reality of the site and the monologue of an eccentric old man. But, to you who are about to build a house. Or, to the young people in the construction industry wondering “What am I working for?” And to the middle-aged men of my generation worrying about how to live the second half of their lives. To you, this “loser’s” howl might actually be useful. Why? Because there are no lies here. I no longer need to sell houses. I don’t need to suck up to anyone. That is precisely why I can speak the cruel “truth.” “Don’t force yourself to build a house.” “Don’t believe the smiles of housing manufacturers.” “The most important thing in life isn’t the specs of the house, but how much you can play there.” …How about it? For a book written by a builder, it’s quite frivolous content, isn’t it? But this is my conclusion after 20 years. Now, turn the page. I invite you to the journey of 20 years spent by an eccentric old man in Kitami—hot, noisy, and supremely beloved.

I might be the one who wants to read the rest the most (lol).

It makes me embarrassed reading it myself, but to think it does this in an instant.
This is…
Jeez…
Half-hearted white-collar workers are definitely confirmed for extinction.

When the “power” called the steam engine was invented, professions using “power” went unemployed one after another.
The AI revolution is the invention of “brains,” so professions using “brains” will go unemployed one after another.
Academic credentials won’t matter anymore.

So, to all the middle managers out there.
It’s not too late. Change out of your leather shoes and white shirts into safety shoes and work clothes, and get on some heavy machinery.

See ya.