The person behind the work
Curiosity, put into practice.
Yi Zhou
AI-Native Builder · Independent Product Creator
In my own words
Yi Zhou’s personal narrative is awaiting his own text or explicit approval.
The project case studies can be explored in the meantime.
Background and current direction
An early interest in making
- Voluntary robotics-programming classes as a child.
- Scratch games made by following and adapting tutorials, including maze and arcade-style games.
- Original maze maps drawn for those projects.
A personal turning point
- This part of the story is reserved for Yi Zhou’s own words.
Curiosity in practice
- Recent interests include education services, creator tools, financial research, and software projects.
Ideas becoming prototypes
- In autumn 2026, AI coding tools made it practical to act on a long-standing interest in programming.
- Yi Zhou describes running his tutoring Mini Program in WeChat Developer Tools as an important moment in moving from ideas to working software.
Responsibility beyond generated code
- His reported work includes describing intended behavior, testing interfaces, and identifying business-rule problems.
- He wants to develop independent technical judgment alongside AI-assisted development.
What comes next
- Specific learning goals and personal reflections are awaiting Yi Zhou’s own text.