I'm Auditing How I Work With AI
I use AI throughout product development, but volume does not prove value, so I am measuring where it helps, where I intervene, and where work gets repeated.
Development ·
Evidence from the work
What became real.
Products, client work, experiments, system fixes, and technical decisions—documented through the friction, the judgment, and the evidence that followed.
How to read this
Each note names what kind of work it is, what changed, and what can be inspected. Planned, tested, live, and complete stay distinct.
Client work
Approved or anonymized engagements where a team needed a useful change, decision, or release.
Products
Software we developed from firsthand friction and continue to shape through real use.
Experiments
Focused prototypes, automations, and technical tools built to answer a practical question.
Systems
Modernization, production repairs, and changes that made an important system easier to trust or change.
Decisions
Investigations, comparisons, and technical direction that reduced uncertainty before more was built.
First set
Work notes
Practical writing about how the work is done, where judgment stays human, and what makes an AI-assisted result trustworthy.
When AI Gets Faster, Verification Becomes the Bottleneck
Faster AI can produce changes before a team can understand them, so the delivery advantage comes from tighter tasks and stronger evidence.
Development ·
What We Still Do Manually When Building With AI
AI can handle more implementation work, but people still need to choose the problem, judge the experience, manage risk, and accept the result.
Development ·
Selected work
Start with the clearest evidence.
Studio productsLive
Workomator
Explore First. Decide Later.
Workomator gives unfinished product thinking a place to develop before a team turns it into a roadmap item, specification, or task.
- Artifact
- Working product
- Product model
- Separate Explore and Decide modes
Studio productsLive
ActionAmp
One Task, and the Reason It Comes Next
ActionAmp opens with one recommended action and shows the priority, timing, and size signals behind the choice.
- Artifact
- Working product
- Product decision
- One recommended action with a visible reason
Studio productsLive
Sidian Sidekicks
The AI Companion That Leaves Your Notes Alone
Sidian Sidekicks reads an existing Obsidian vault but writes its research and review into separate folders, leaving the source notes untouched.
- Artifact
- Working product
- Product boundary
- Generated work stays separate from original notes
Studio products
Software we developed from firsthand friction and continue to shape through real use.
Studio productsLive
ActionAmp
The Roadmap That Can't Break a Promise
ActionAmp keeps a public roadmap that records dated shipped steps instead of promised dates, so the page itself proves the product is moving.
- Artifact
- Public roadmap and shipped log
- Product decision
- Shipped steps carry dates; direction stays undated until evidence supports it
Studio productsLive
Workomator
Explore First. Decide Later.
Workomator gives unfinished product thinking a place to develop before a team turns it into a roadmap item, specification, or task.
- Artifact
- Working product
- Product model
- Separate Explore and Decide modes
Studio productsLive
ActionAmp
One Task, and the Reason It Comes Next
ActionAmp opens with one recommended action and shows the priority, timing, and size signals behind the choice.
- Artifact
- Working product
- Product decision
- One recommended action with a visible reason
Studio productsLive
Sidian Sidekicks
The AI Companion That Leaves Your Notes Alone
Sidian Sidekicks reads an existing Obsidian vault but writes its research and review into separate folders, leaving the source notes untouched.
- Artifact
- Working product
- Product boundary
- Generated work stays separate from original notes
Tools & experiments
Focused prototypes, automations, and technical tools built to answer a practical question.
Tools & experimentsOngoing
Dakic campaign publishing workflow
The Handoff We Deleted
A preview-first runner translated a 37-date campaign plan into 148 account-specific jobs, uploaded 32 media files once, and recorded every external post ID.
- Removed handoff
- 37-date schedule to 148 account-specific publishing jobs
- Safety control
- Preview first; external scheduling requires `--execute`
Tools & experimentsOngoing
Dakic campaign system
From One Article to a Complete Campaign
One source argument became 32 reusable tiles, four account voices, and a 37-date campaign that remained reviewable outside the scheduling tool.
- Campaign artifact
- 32 editable tiles across 37 publishing dates
- Channel plan
- 148 account-specific publishing jobs
Tools & experimentsLive
Product Idea Validator
Seven Days to an Honest Answer
The Product Idea Validator reached a complete browser flow in three days, testing the decision path before adding accounts, storage, or a backend.
- Initial build
- Core implementation landed between March 11 and March 13
- Artifact
- Live interactive assessment
Systems & fixes
Modernization, production repairs, and changes that made an important system easier to trust or change.
Systems & fixesCompleted
Dakic website
The Sitemap Said /blog. The Site Did Not.
The sitemap advertised `/blog/:slug` while Astro generated root-level article routes. Both now consume the same normalized permalink.
- Fault
- Sitemap hard-coded `/blog/:slug` URLs
- Verification
- Generated sitemap now matches live article routes
Research & decisions
Investigations, comparisons, and technical direction that reduced uncertainty before more was built.
Research & decisionsLive
Legacy Modernization Roadmap Generator
Repair, Modernize, or Replace?
The live assessment compares rewrite, strangler, in-place modernization, and hybrid approaches against business dependence, delivery safety, and team capacity.
- Artifact
- Live modernization assessment
- Options compared
- Rewrite, strangler, in-place modernization, and hybrid
Research & decisionsCompleted
Dakic website
Projects Show the Products. Work Shows the Thinking.
Dakic kept Projects focused on studio products and created Work for the decisions, fixes, and experiments that do not belong in a product portfolio.
- Decision
- Keep Projects and Work as separate destinations
- Artifact
- Live Work library