20, Electrical Engineering at Waterloo. I run experiments and like being proven wrong.
Building introspective AI to feel pain and emotions. Spent summer 2026 as a forward deployed engineer at TextNow.
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watnow is a Chrome extension that reads every course on Learn and answers "what's due this week?" It has 1300 installs. |
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WatsWorthIt is a free Chrome extension that shows pay per hour and an ROI score on the WaterlooWorks job table. |
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Jargon Panel is a Chrome side panel that defines jargon next to the Google Meet caption that used it. The waitlist is open. |
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scaffold-bench tested whether frontier coding agents still need scaffolding, over five pre-registered rounds. The scaffold won in round five. |
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Anti-Soy helps non-technical recruiters evaluate candidates from their GitHub code. |
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ccpet is a desktop pet that mirrors a live Claude Code session. She types while the agent works and puts her hand up when it needs your approval. |
Agents on my own harness pick up tickets and open PRs, and I review them. The skills I run in Claude Code are public:
/plugin marketplace add EricJujianZou/skills
/plugin install ez-skills@ez
I'm working on design and distribution right now and want to hear from design, product and marketing people. Book 20 minutes or email e2zou@uwaterloo.ca.
Writing at ericzou.dev. Resume.









