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Grit, Soap for Bodybuilders
Boutique soap branding balancing an intense workout with a gentle recovery.
Steven Jieli Wu · Engineering × Product × Design
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Jieli Wu
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I demystify complex technology so anyone can put it to work, whether you lead a team, run a company, or are just getting started. I learn like a sponge and translate the hardest ideas into plain language, so what feels out of reach becomes obvious. A Shanghai-born technologist and award-winning designer, I work where engineering, product, and design converge. This is the index of everything I build, write, and ship.
Selected Work & Index
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learnaifluency.com
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vercel.app
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beehiiv.com
Open Source
GitHubCuratedA hand-picked set of repositories across @terpjwu1 and @fiorastudio, 11 projects.
Learn AI Fluency
WebsiteA resource for getting genuinely fluent with AI, beyond prompts, toward real capability.
Design work
Graphic DesignGDUSAAward-winning graphic design, including three GDUSA American Graphic Design Award winners.
Motion Portfolio
Motion GraphicsMotion graphics & animation work, the studio's reel, case studies, and experiments.
Tiny AI Wins with Jieli
NewsletterSnackable AI insights delivered to your inbox, practical wins for busy, curious minds.
Open Source
2 profiles · 11 reposbuddy★ 98
A virtual pet companion for your AI, designed for in-context code review.
TypeScriptmeetily◆ v0.4.0
A privacy-first, 100% local AI meeting assistant: fast transcription, speaker diarization, and Ollama summaries. The #1 self-hosted, open-source note-taker for macOS & Windows.
Rustpretext-gravity★ 1
An interactive text-reflow experiment using chenglou/pretext.
TypeScriptlikely★ 4
A Claude Code hook that catches AI hedging and forces verification.
PowerShellTabKondo★ 1
Tidy your tabs, Marie-Kondo style, a published Chrome extension.
JavaScriptFocus
A Mac focus tool built for the ADHD brain.
Swifthotjar-replay-analysis
A Claude Code skill that auto-watches Hotjar session replays via CDP.
JavaScriptreadwise-obsidian-graphRAG
A Readwise ↔ Obsidian integration with a minimal graphRAG chat UI.
JavaScriptConvertGiftoMp4
A CLI that converts GIFs to social-ready MP4s (H.264, 30fps, fast-start).
PythonconstructionTruckGame
A three.js excavator you drive, with working magnets.
JavaScriptbeybladeX
A browser-based Beyblade X experiment. Let it rip.
HTMLDesign & Awards
3 GDUSA winners
GDUSA American Graphic Design Award, Graphic Design USA
3 winning pieces · Grit · Imagine N°6 · Miracle Chase · 2018–2019
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Festival Identity
Imagine, Festival N°6
An identity built on one idea: "transcend into a new dimension." Art & music, Portmeirion, Wales.
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PR Campaign
Miracle Chase
A campaign to reframe Xiaomi's public perception of being "unoriginal."
Certifications
10 credentialsAnthropic
Claude Code in Action
Issued Aug 2026Snowflake
Snowflake COCO Champion
Issued Jun 2026Anthropic
Teaching the AI Fluency Framework
Issued Jun 2026Google Cloud
Certified Generative AI Leader
Issued Jan 2026Databricks
Academy Accreditation, AI Agent Fundamentals
Issued Oct 2025Databricks
Generative AI Engineering with Databricks
Issued Sep 2025WWriter
No-code Agent Builder Certification
Issued Jun 2025Hugging Face
AI Agents Fundamentals
Issued Feb 2025Databricks
Certified Generative AI Engineer Associate
Issued Jan 2025 · Expires Jan 2027Databricks
Academy Accreditation, Generative AI Fundamentals
Issued Dec 2024 · Expires Dec 2026Writing & Talks
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Power Data News
What on earth is RAG?
FeaturedA plain-English explainer on Retrieval-Augmented Generation, published with the MLOps Community.
Field Notes from a Solo Builder
Dev.to · 4-part seriesShipping the beloved open-source Claude Code Buddy into the wild: first principles and the token tax, community and the art of listening, and taste, branding, and the new builder playbook.
3,000 clones and 1,000 buddies hatched
LinkedInThe launch post for Buddy, the open-source AI companion, on the response from the community.
Brainstorm and Converse with AI on the Go
3 min readUsing AI tools while traveling, for busy parents and curious families on the move.
What Makes AI Companions Different?
PodcastFeatured on Power Data News, on how AI companions differ, why people bond with them, and how persistent memory & human-centered design shape the experience, as the creator of Buddy.
About
Steven (Jieli) WuMade in Shanghai, China 🇨🇳. 17 years back home, 19 in the U.S. Trilingual: Shanghainese, Mandarin, and English.
- a technologist passionate about AI and Search
- a seeker with an abundance of curiosity
- a multidisciplinary designer with a few accolades
- a writer with a zest for demystifying complex technologies and explaining them in layman's terms
- a leader with an uncanny ability to listen
- a generative creator (Buddy) and AI educator
The Venn diagram has converged with AI
For most of my career, engineering, product, and design were three separate crafts, and I had to pick a lane for every task. AI collapsed the lines between them. For the first time I can move fluently across all three at once, from first prototype to shipped product. That convergence is where I do my best work.