I Built an AI-Powered Chinese BaZi (八字) Fortune Teller — Here's What DeepSeek Revealed About Destiny

The Algorithm That's Been Running for 3,000 Years Most people think "Chinese fortune telling" is either superstitious nonsense or a mysterious old man with a beard. The reality? BaZi (八字, literally "Eight Characters") is a deterministic algorithm. Your birth year, month, day, and hour map to specific Heavenly Stems (天干) and Earthly Branches (地支). These aren't random — they follow a 60-year cycle that's been documented since the Han Dynasty. When I first learned this, I thought: This is literally