Hi, I'm Dacia

(and I build things with AI)

I practice something called "vibe coding" — riffing with language models until something real emerges. It's like jazz, but with code.

The backstory →

I spent twenty years in financial services and mortgage tech as a product person. Not writing code — sitting in rooms asking "but what problem are we actually solving?" Building roadmaps, writing requirements, translating between business and engineering.

Raising a neurodivergent kid taught me something the corporate world never did: the most important problems don't have off-the-shelf solutions. Generic tools fail when people have specific needs. Sometimes you have to build the thing yourself.

Then AI happened. Suddenly I could prototype the tools I'd been imagining for years. Not by learning to code in the traditional sense, but by collaborating with language models until working software emerged.

Now I build intelligent tools that make people feel more capable. My AI collaborators help me move fast, while twenty years of product thinking keeps everything pointed toward something real.

Currently obsessed with:

Clarineffable

I got tired of knowing I'd written something down but never being able to find it. So I built a system that actually understands my life. I can ask it "what did I decide about that project last month?" and get a real answer. It's the most personal thing I've ever built.

Signal

My kid's brain doesn't work the way productivity apps expect. No app on the market understood that. So I built one that does — syllabus scanning, escalating reminders, a reward system that actually motivates. I built it because I'm her mom and I could.

PowerDeckAI

My son and I play Magic: The Gathering. When the new bracket system dropped, we both wanted to know where our decks landed. I built the tool that answers that question — and now other players use it too.

What I bring:

→ Product thinking (20 years of "what are we actually solving?")

→ AI fluency — Claude API, Ollama, LangChain

→ Convincing AI to write exactly what I want

→ Turning ideas into shipped products

What AI brings:

→ The code I can't write myself

→ Everything else on this page

"The most important problems don't have off-the-shelf solutions."