From Banker to AI Founder | Generated by AI
Here’s what you did in the past ~10 days (June 30 — July 7):
1. Company Formation Research — 60%+ of your effort
Guangzhou — You went deep:
- Registered a Guangzhou company (English guide), studied address rules, registration system rules
- Researched free name reservation, “register after first revenue” strategy, zero-filing tax advice
- Compared Guangzhou vs Shenzhen for solo AI startups
Shenzhen — For comparison:
- Shenzhen outpacing Guangzhou on OPC-EN, HNTE certification benefits
- 2025 business environment plans, Shenzhen US LLC service risks
Hong Kong — The deepest dive:
- Full guide for mainland citizens, pros/cons, watchdog-style warning analysis
- Solo consultant viability, package legitimacy
- Company secretary licence requirements, TCSP licence search & verification (5+ notes on TCSP alone)
- Deregistration comparison across GZ-SZ-HK
US connection — Form 5472 IRS disclosure
Action plan for 2026 synthesized it all.
2. Identity / Branding Updates
You rewrote your custom instructions 3+ times in 2 days:
- July 6: “bank is now last job, current is founder/AI full stack engineer”
- July 6: “Tinker-level positioning, agentic world vision, learning-while-earning strategy”
- July 6: “launched — one-person AI startup, mortgage still 900K”
- July 7: Trimmed short-custom-instruction from 13KB → 1.4KB
You’re explicitly transitioning from “left bank, starting AI company” to “launched, one-person AI company.”
3. AI / Technical Notes
- Talos V2 — Transformer FPGA accelerator (2 notes)
- AI Systems Bootcamp in China — study note
- AI recording / transcription — devices + self-hosted Plaud alternative
- Inference backends — SGLang vs vLLM comparison, detection tool
- GPU utilization guide
- Hermes note plugin — setup summary
4. Group / Community Management
- AI·Truth group — updated size (430 members, 120 met), member intro section
- WeChat group roster for disaster recovery (backup plan)
- Translated notes batch (bilingual maintenance)
5. Misc Tech & Life
- Brisket cooking note
- WW CLI + quant bot DCA notes
- VNC remote desktop setup, OpCore EFI builder
- Chinese input (Shuangpin, fcitx5) — a full pipeline of 5+ posts
- iOS customization, alternative Linux distros
- Digital re-entry app (Homecoming)
- iPhone X / 13 dimensions, password manager safety
- XeLaTeX vs other TeX compilers
Summary
The big story: you left the bank, started your AI company, and immediately went into company registration deep-research mode — comparing Guangzhou vs Shenzhen vs Hong Kong structures for a solo AI consultant. Interspersed with hard technical notes (Talos V2, inference backends, GPU) and community maintenance. The identity rebranding from “bank contractor” to “founder/AI full stack engineer” was formalized across 4 custom-instruction commits.