A build-in-public series

DIVYADOES AI.

What happens when an operator realizes she can build?

I started with one prompt and a lot of curiosity. The experiments kept getting bigger: websites, dashboards, agents, workflows, and a different idea of who gets to build. This is the running record of that shift.

Experiments · Builds · Lessons

The premise

The thing that changed wasn’t AI. It was what I believed I could build.

Divya Does AI follows the experiments, mistakes, decisions, and surprises behind building with AI as part of the work — not as a topic sitting beside it.

The series

11 episodes and counting.

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EP01
article

I Couldn’t Code. I Built Something Anyway.

Divya Does AI - Part 1

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EP02
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I Ran Out of Credits. So I Opened GitHub.

Divya Does AI - Part 2

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EP03
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This Used to Take Me 3 Hours. Now It Takes Me 10 Minutes.

Divya Does AI - Part 3

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EP04
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I Thought I Was Too Structured. AI Made Me Realize I Was Just Early

Divya Does AI - Part 4

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EP05
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Divya Does AI - Ep 1 Turned My LinkedIn Into an Interactive Website in 15 Minutes—Without Writing Code

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EP06
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Divya Does AI - Ep 2 Stop Rebuilding the Same Dashboard With AI

In episode two of DivyaDoesAI, I’m sharing a lesson I learned while turning JSON and CSV data into an interactive project dashboard.

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EP07
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Divya Does AI - Ep 3 I Thought AI Would Change My Job. I Didn’t Expect It to Change What I Could Build.

There is a particular kind of anxiety I hear a lot right now.

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EP08
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Divya Does AI — Ep 4. 76 Deployments in Five Days: What AI-Native Product Development Actually Felt Like

In Episode 3, I wrote about something that surprised me during an AI experiment:

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EP09
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Divya Does AI - EP 5 The Agentic Department -What Happens When Operators Become Builders?

For most of my career, if an operations team needed software, there was a fairly predictable chain of events.

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EP10
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Divya Does AI-I Started With One Lovable Prompt. Then I Got Curious.

How a simple personal website experiment turned into GitHub, Vercel, DNS, accessibility, analytics — and a much deeper understanding of how the web actually works.

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EP11
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Divya Does AI - EP 6 AI Agents vs. Agentic Delivery Agents: How Much Autonomy Should We Give Them?

My four-stage model for deciding when an agent should observe, recommend, act — or bring a human back into the loop.

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Still building

The series grows every time curiosity turns into something real.

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