Building with AI. Making room for life.
I'm Eli Robbins. I'm building businesses and software with AI, and trying to make more room for life outside the work.
This is where I share what I'm working on, the decisions behind it, and what still needs figuring out.
Start here — Why I'm building a team of AI agentsDecide what we're building.
I work through the content and design with Ivy before anything gets built. The decisions stay mine: what it's for, what it says, and what it shouldn't claim.
Hand over a clear brief.
A coding agent needs to know what we've accepted, what it can change, and where to stop. A finished implementation is where checking starts, not where the work ends.
Check the actual result.
Ivy reviews what was built rather than repeating the implementation report. I decide whether it's right and whether it's ready. Sometimes the answer is to go back to a decision.
Writing code is only part of the work. Someone has to decide what to build, keep track of the decisions, and check whether the result does what it should. I'm working out how much of that I can hand to AI without creating a second job supervising it.
That leaves a lot of work around the coding: remembering why we chose something, deciding what comes next, reviewing the result, and knowing when to stop. From the essayRead the article
What I'm working on
These projects give the experiments somewhere practical to go.
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The Golf Cart Shop
A golf cart parts business. I'm working on making a large catalog easier to use, including helping someone describe what they need when they don't know the part number.
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Run Church
Church-management software I'm building with AI. The work includes deciding what belongs in the product and how to get it into use.
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An exploration
Dun Tax
An early exploration of a sales-tax-rate service that agents could help maintain. Whether it could operate with little ongoing involvement from me is still an open question.
A long‑running experiment
My background is in systems administration and practical automation. I usually start with a problem I understand: a repetitive office task, information that's hard to find, or a process that takes more effort than it should.
IC Solutions stands for Ingenious Computing Solutions. I bought the domain in 2001 with the idea of starting a computer business. The domain became a place to learn and experiment, and I've kept coming back to it.
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