Dorellworks

active March 2024 — Present

AI & Automation

Emerging work: tools, agents, and workflows

ai automation experiments indie-hacking

Overview

This is my exploration space for AI and automation. It’s not a formal service yet — it’s where I figure things out by building, testing, and iterating.

What I’m building

  • Small workflows that solve real problems (mine first, others’ later)
  • AI agents that help with specific tasks
  • Tools and utilities that make working with AI less complicated
  • Systems that actually survive real life, not just demos

Philosophy

  • Build for myself first - If it doesn’t solve my problem, I won’t understand it well enough to teach or share it
  • Small beats complicated - One working workflow is worth more than a giant architecture plan
  • Reality over theory - Tools only matter if they work in actual life

Current focus

  • Figuring out how AI agents can help individuals work with clarity and speed
  • Building workflows that integrate into real work (not just impressive demos)
  • Documenting what works so others can learn from it

Where this is heading

Eventually, this becomes something I can teach and offer to others. For now, it’s about building in public and sharing honest progress.

Status

Active exploration. Some experiments turn into products. Others become lessons. All of it is shared openly.

Project Journey

The updates and progress for AI & Automation, in chronological order.

Published the last post in the series — automating responsible AI development. Pre-commit hooks, CI gates, PR templates. You can't automate judgment, but you can automate the scaffolding that forces you to apply it.

Writing the honest part of the series — why the framework is hard to follow. Generation is exciting, verification is boring. We're tired, AI never is. I catch myself cutting corners too. That's the real talk.

Spent the morning thinking about how AI agents can help individuals work with clarity and speed. Not the hype version — the real version where it actually solves problems you have today.

Drafting the framework piece. Six phases for the workflow, five practices for the thinking. The key insight: at every phase, you cycle through all practices. Explore, verify, reflect, critique, intuit. Repeat.

Writing about the payment migration and realizing there was a pattern to what I did. Not random — there were phases. Map, design, build clean, add complexity, verify, deploy. Might be a framework here.

Starting the payment migration write-up

← Back to Projects