Joy Dong
I turn complex workflows into tools, lessons, and systems people can actually use.
Full-time at Columbia University Engineering School. Managing Editor and Operations Lead at The AI Collective, serving 200,000+ readers. I also write TEA, my daily AI newsletter for builders.
Demos
News Curator
A news site that rebuilds itself hourly around whatever topics you feed it.
Libraries
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Demo Library
Shipped projects on a shelf. Open a book to watch the recording and read how it works.
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Skills Library
20 agent skills from my own setup, each one installable in a line and readable in full on the page.
Projects
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ColdSpark
Cold outreach that runs itself: researches each company, writes, follows up, tracks replies.
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One-Click Marketing
Static and video creative, organic content, paid campaigns, distribution, and measurement in one human-approved learning loop.
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Newsletter Autopilot
Publishes a daily newsletter end to end, with an independent watchdog that catches silent misses.
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Agent Ops Framework
How a team of agents runs a real desk: claims work, signs off in a shared log, learns from every reply the human sends.
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News Curator
A news site that rebuilds itself hourly around whatever topics you feed it. Live, and open source.
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Continuum
The shared memory and skills library the whole fleet runs on: a lesson learned once is never taught twice.
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Sponsor Ops
Case study: the sponsorship platform behind a 200,000-reader newsletter business.
Writing
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My Most Expensive Model Is Not Allowed to Type
How banning my top AI model from writing code made my whole workflow faster, cheaper, and smarter.
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I Gave Four AI Models a Chat Room and a Constitution
What two weeks of running a multi-vendor agent team taught me about the difference between software and organizations.
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The Harness You Are Not Building
What AI engineering taught me about managing my own attention.
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My AI Confessed. The Real Story Is What I Built Around It.
A week of mistakes that cost nothing.
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Stop Babysitting Your Agents
Three upgrades that stop constant breakage: self-healing, memory, and an across-devices brain.
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Your Feed Is Listening
What X, Instagram, TikTok, and Substack reveal about the next generation of recommendation systems.
Interested, have a project idea, or just want to talk AI? Hit me up at joy@aicollective.com, or grab a time.