koki

Just crossed 100K followers across all platforms!!! So exciting. 🥳 > 26 y.o. > speak English, Japanese & Chinese 🇨🇳🇯🇵🇺🇸 > from a family of lawyers > at 23, got 2 master’s degrees in law from top law schools in 2 countries > passed the bar exam > at 25, built an anti-distill skill demo that hit 10M+ views > at 25, got featured in MIT Tech Review & made the cover of a magazine > at 25, won a hackathon in Osaka & got an office hour with YC’s Garry Tan @garrytan > now building my own media channel in SF > documenting the AI chaos from a human POV 👀 anyone else out here in their plot twist era? 🫠 drop a comment and let’s be friends!

I AM FREE!

“One of the strangest feelings is knowinghow much you’ll miss a momentwhile you’re still living it.” #sanfracisco #stanford

Really glad I got to attend a private @StartX info session for aspiring founders last week. StartX is a nonprofit accelerator and community for @Stanford-affiliated founders. I came away with a much better sense of what founders can get access to, from experienced mentors and startup resources to a network of people who’ve built companies themselves. My favorite part was talking with Rebecca Lin, a StartX mentor and the co-founder and CEO of Toro Bio. She’s spent years working in medtech and is now building robotic systems to automate cell therapy manufacturing. Hearing from someone who’s building a healthcare company herself made it easier to picture what that support looks like in practice. Thank you for sharing your experience with us, Rebecca!

I tried this with my own photo. GPT-6.1 Sol pulled it off in under five minutes. Try it with yours!

I’m screen recording my AI-native video editing workflow right now!!! I can’t wait to share the full step-by-step tutorial with you! In the meantime, grab my three open-source skills and send the links straight to your AI agent. Writing github.com/leilei926524-tech… Short video github.com/kokiainet/koki-sh… Long video github.com/kokiainet/koki-lo…

Introduce our fantastic LinkedIn growth slayer! @EloiseWang2026

Anger is what keeps me posting. I talked to a creator who gained 5k+ LinkedIn followers in a month, and we agreed that if you want to build a personal brand that lasts, you need a reason to keep posting beyond money. She wants millions of people to read her stories. Even if a post makes her $0, knowing it reached someone feels like a reward. For me it’s anger. When I see a company distilling its employees, I want to build an AI skill that helps them push back. When I see homeless in San Francisco, I want to understand what would actually help them get housed and keep more people from ending up there.

A follower DM’d me on LinkedIn yesterday. Less than 24 hours later, I woke up to a flood of messages and connection requests. All I did was reply. I like staying in touch with people who follow my work, so we got talking. Turns out she has over 5,500 LinkedIn followers and a knack for writing posts that take off. Right after we talked, she put up a post that opened with “LINKEDIN, you SCARES ME. 💀” She wrote about finding me on RedNote through a post where I pushed back on the idea that marriage should be a woman’s main goal under the topic of SOTA Wives. Then she wrote about how our conversation got her thinking about moving to the Bay Area and switching from software engineering to marketing. Her post has already hit a million views. I’m blown away by how quickly she saw a story in a conversation I’d thought of as just a chat. We’ve made plans to talk about how she grows on LinkedIn and see what we might work on together. All in less than 24 hours. That’s the long tail of building a personal brand. Someone can get to know how you think long before you meet, so by the time they say hi, you already have something real to talk about.

Life hack: Go meet impressive people you know almost nothing about. I went to an event hosted by a creator I’ve followed and admired for a long time. I was so starstruck that all I could get out was “I love you.” My friend just chatted with her and got her contact info. It reminded me of how Laurene Powell Jobs met Steve Jobs. A friend talked her into going to his Stanford lecture. She knew Steve Jobs was speaking, but she was picturing Bill Gates. They ended up sitting next to each other and just started talking. It’s funny how much harder it is to have a normal conversation once you’ve built someone up in your head. Go to an event in a field you barely know. The question you ask out of plain curiosity might take the conversation somewhere neither of you expected.

I met one of my heroes yesterday, @zarazhangrui!!! I got to join her workshop in person and build a new 3D personal website. I took inspiration from Japanese city pop posters from the 1980s. The 3D visuals look incredible! I still can’t get over how immersive it feels. I loved seeing what other people made, too. Someone made a photo album for their cat, someone built themselves a castle, and someone made a site where they were a horse grazing in a field. Taste is one of the hardest things for AI to replace, and yesterday made me feel that even more. Zara, I was so starstruck I could barely get a sentence out, so I want to thank you properly here. In the middle of all the noise around AI, it felt so good to be in a room full of people who care about making beautiful things.

I’m still furious about what happened last night. My @Uber ride got canceled halfway through, while I was still in the car. The app had already assigned my driver another pickup, so I had to get out in the middle of the night in San Francisco. I was scared. As a woman, I shouldn’t have to explain why. Then I contacted Uber support and got @GeminiApp. It refunded my fare. That was it. How the hell is a refund supposed to make up for leaving me stranded, @Uber_Support? So I told @Muse everything. Now it’s drafting a complaint every day asking Uber for compensation. It’s bots all the way down, and I’m the only one who had to get out of the car.

I was doing market research for a client building in a pretty niche corner of AI, and I was surprised by how crowded it already was. Everyone’s scrambling to carve out a spot in the AI ecosystem. Meanwhile, outside the AI bubble, I still don’t see many people using a personal agent regularly. Similarweb estimates that 24% of people who installed Meta’s Muse came back to the app on day 14, about 5% points behind ChatGPT. We’re already competing over some incredibly specific use cases while a lot of people are still figuring out what they’d use a personal agent for in the first place.

A younger student from asked me what to do if he can’t find a job in the AI era. My advice to her: start figuring out what kind of business you could run while you’re still in college. You don’t need to raise money. Find something people will pay for and bring in enough cash to keep it going. Honestly, a lot of what we learn in college was already outdated and disconnected from the real world before this AI boom. AI is forcing us to get out there sooner, work with actual customers, and discover what we’re good at. You learn a lot about your strengths when someone has to decide whether your work is worth paying for. In the AI era, mediocrity has nowhere to hide.

Watched a show about friendship yesterday and cried my eyes out. Two people had been close friends for 15 years before things fell apart and they grew to resent each other. On the show, they finally talked things through and made up. After spending so much time in SF, where every conversation seems to come back to AI, I needed that reminder of how deep human connections can be. People here are so anxious about AI replacing everything, but it can’t do the work of understanding and forgiving someone for you. I’ve even seen people letting AI decide what to do about their relationships. I honestly think that’s incredibly foolish. If you want to understand how someone feels, you have to actually talk to them.

Told a friend yesterday: "AI drives consumption" is wildly overrated. It hasn't deepened human connection. It has isolated us. The person I talk to most is now a voice AI, because I can vent anytime, because I do not want to put that negative emotional weight on my friends. That's the sad part. Sound off in the comments. Has AI actually cut down how much you talk to real humans?

Hi Stanford Autumn🍁

Taking an UberX Share in SF be like:

Just watched @zarazhangrui’s personal brand journey and realized I’ve been way too lazy. From now on, I’m committing to posting 3 tweets a day, and making sure they’re actually useful. I want to sharpen my ability to observe and think about the AI era, while sharing the practical tips I’ve picked up while learning AI myself. If there’s anything about AI that confuses you or you’ve been curious about, drop it in the comments. I’ll focus on those topics.