About

Hi, I'm Dokyun Kim. Non-developer who shipped 20+ internal tools with AI.

For most of my career I believed software was something other people made. I work in operations at a healthcare organization, not in an engineering team. I don't have a computer science degree. But over the last couple of years I watched real, painful problems pile up — spreadsheets that didn't scale, manual paperwork, data scattered across systems — and nobody was coming to fix them.

So I started building. With AI as a tireless pair programmer, I shipped one small internal tool, then another, then twenty-plus: an HR and approval system, inventory tracking, a rehabilitation-care dashboard, automation bots, and more. Real systems that real colleagues log into every day.

Why this blog exists

Almost everything written about "building with AI" is either hype or assumes you're already an engineer. This blog is the opposite. It's a working logbook for people who were told they couldn't code: the actual problems I faced, the prompts and decisions that worked, the dead-ends that wasted my time, and how I shipped anyway.

Everything here is written from first-hand experience. When I haven't tested something myself, I'll say so. If I get something wrong, tell me and I'll fix it.

Get in touch

Questions, corrections, or just want to share what you're building? Email me athello@fromzerotoship.com or see thecontact page.