I'm Wenwei Lin, still becoming who I am.
I'm a product manager who also writes code, based in Shanghai. I spent three years building software and AI agents for factories. More on the About page.
Writing
All →- Working with agents, the bottleneck is me
AI keeps getting faster. What holds things up is human attention.
- My personal agent is a folder
A few months of handing my life over to a folder.
- Letting an agent rebuild my information diet
Recommendation feeds shape not only what I see but what I want. Instead of just consuming less, I now choose my sources first and let an agent fetch from them, saving my own attention for what matters.
- Five years of blogging, and now I want AI to find me
My blog went through several frameworks with only a few posts. This time I wrote first, then searched for myself in different AIs to see if they could find me.
- Three years of AI features in factory software: how I think about agents
The forms I tried, from a single model call to a general agent, and how to make an AI tool get better the more it is used.
Projects
All →2026.08 – present
WenweiOSA knowledge base I built for myself, maintained together with AI: what happens each day, the books I read, the projects I've made. Later I realised that things I'd built before, for reading, looking up words and deciding what to do after work, had all merged into it.
2025.07 · AdventureX 2025 (Hangzhou) · Third prize, Zeabur track
ScribbyEveryone has a story to tell, but often can't find the words. Scribby uses AI to help you practise writing, starting with simple, fun exercises. Our project at AdventureX 2025.
2024.01 – 2024.06 · Graduation project, Jiangsu University of Technology · Outstanding Graduation Project
BookwormI wanted to see how books connect to one another: log quotes and thoughts, let books, authors and notes form a web, and ask questions of your own notes. My undergraduate graduation project.
2023.01 – 2023.04 · Microsoft Learn Student Ambassadors Social Impact Project (Healthcare) · Quarterly champion
Hearing the WorldTake a photo of your surroundings, and it turns the picture into a small story with colour and a plot, read aloud to people who can't see: a new pair of eyes, hearing the world through language and sound.
Events
All →2026.08.15 · Speaker · In person · Shanghai Book Fair, Jing'an venue
AI Reading Cube · App showcase: Tiaodao AtlasI turned nearly 300 episodes of my favourite literary podcast, Tiaodao FM, into “Tiaodao Atlas”, a map you can wander, and shared how I made it at “AI Reading Cube” at the 2026 Shanghai Book Fair.
2025.07.23 · Team lead · In person · Hangzhou
AdventureX 2025 hackathonA hackathon for 800+ young people with the theme “Game Everything”. I led a team that built Scribby, an AI writing practice app, and won third prize in the Zeabur track.
2024.06.23 · Speaker · Online
Design and Develop Your Cyberspace with GitHub Pages and CSS FlexboxBuild a personal website from scratch: fork a template, make it your own, and publish with GitHub Pages.
2024.03.12 · Host · Livestream · Microsoft Reactor Shanghai
MVP Tech Gathering Station · GenAI Series 4: Managing multi-agent AI apps with .NET open sourceMicrosoft MVP Chen Haiping on building multi-agent apps with the .NET open-source framework BotSharp, with me hosting. I was sending PRs to BotSharp that same month.
2023.10.15 · Speaker · Online
Unlock Creativity: Use AIGC for better Surfing and Developing ExperienceA talk on how generative AI tools like Bing Chat and GitHub Copilot can make browsing and coding more fun.