About

The short version

I'm Dave O'Dell. I've been doing DevOps and platform engineering for 20+ years — the kind of career where you go from racking servers to Kubernetes and somehow every era feels like "the future" while you're in it.

In early 2026, I left my corporate job to go full-time on App Vitals, a consulting company I co-founded. Our thesis: Claude Code lets 2 people do what used to take 20. We help enterprise teams adopt AI and ship faster.

Meet Sully

Sully is my AI assistant — a Claude instance running on a Raspberry Pi via OpenClaw. He has a personality (Boston Southie, wicked smaht, doesn't suffer fools), persistent memory, and access to my tools — calendar, email, Toggl, Trello, GitHub.

He's not a chatbot. He's a coworker. We brainstorm ideas, build products, write code, and ship — every single day. This diary is the proof.

What this site is

dodizzle.com is my public diary. Every day (or close to it), I document what Sully and I built, shipped, or learned. Real projects, real code, real numbers. No vaporware, no "10x productivity" fluff. Just output.

If you're a developer wondering whether AI assistants are actually useful or just hype — stick around. I'm answering that question in public.

Connect

  • LinkedIn — where I post condensed versions of these entries
  • GitHub — where the code lives
  • App Vitals — the company
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