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
News
China Censorship Watch
Paid news API that flags topics pulled from Weibo, Baidu and Zhihu hot lists while still hot, with the evidence for each flag.
Censorship Diff Explorer
Compare daily snapshots of social posts and see which ones disappeared.
Teaching & learning
Live Translate
Live English and Chinese interpreting in one room. The other person reads along on their phone.
Avery Studio Shop
Bilingual classroom materials.
Online business tools
AI Shopping Check
Free scan that shows whether AI shopping assistants can read a Shopify or WooCommerce store's products.
Agent systems
Agent Ops Framework
How my agent team runs.
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All projects
every build, with a picture of each
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.