empty dev dashboard
kanban board
filled dev dashboard

Notes

please read the pinned comments in the demo video in yt some narration mistakes highlighted

at the end I wanted to show the reports dwight generate in the video both change request report and approved report are there

Inspiration

I kept watching devs drown in PR review and task triage while AI tools just generated more code. I wanted an AI teammate that actually owns a column on the board, not another chatbot.

What it does

DAVE is a Kanban workspace where three AI teammates (Michael, Jim, Dwight) sit alongside humans. Michael breaks a project into tasks, Jim writes code and opens PRs, and Dwight reviews every PR before a task can move to Done. Humans and agents share the same board, so nothing gets lost between "AI wrote it" and "shipped."

How we built it

Next.js + Supabase for auth, data, and realtime. GitHub OAuth for repo access. Each agent is a server-side module that calls the LLM with project context, repo snapshots, and diffs, then writes structured results back to the board. Dwight streams a live activity log so you can watch him review.

Challenges we ran into

no cost challege - used free gemini ai api and open source providers for vibe engineering as well

Getting agents to act on the board without a human in the loop was harder than the LLM part — verdicts had to flip task status, move columns, and bounce tasks back reliably. GitHub token expiry mid-review also needed graceful re-auth instead of silent failure.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

A full loop works end to end: project setup → task breakdown → code + PR → automated review → done. Dwight's change-request flow now lets the dev explain what they fixed, so re-reviews aren't blind.

What we learned

Agents need tight, well-defined jobs. "Review this PR against this task" works; "help with the project" doesn't. Structured JSON outputs beat freeform chat for anything that drives UI state.