I've spent fifteen years automating other people's work.
I turned it on myself — a second brain in Markdown, and four agents that tend it while I sleep.
Not a product. Not a pitch. An honest window into something I'm actually building and living with.
The idea is simple and a little stubborn: capture what I know in a way I'll actually reuse, and build tools that genuinely help — not demos.
AI is here to stay, and an amazingly powerful tool that will change our lives. It's also a lot of hype and overblown expectation. I'm less interested in the noise than the question underneath it: what can I actually put to use?
So I'm finding out by making real things and living with them. This page is the honest version of where that's gotten me.
Something one of them sent me this morning.
Illustrative — pulled from a real recent session.
A small team, with defined roles.
The names are mine and a little personal — each one has a job, and a temperament to match it.
Holds the whole picture and decides what reaches me and what waits.
Reads everything, says little — the one who names the thing I'm avoiding.
Runs the day: commitments, schedules, follow-ups, loose ends.
Will not let a promise quietly die.
Watches the long game — habits, goals, and where I'm drifting.
Asks the uncomfortable questions on Sunday nights.
Builds and maintains the system itself, writing the tools the others use.
The agent whose job is improving the other agents.
Support that usually only executives get.
Pulls promises out of my notes and conversations, and won't let them quietly die.
Surfaces what matters before I think to ask — sometimes well, sometimes not.
The agents hand work between each other so I don't have to coordinate them.
Linus writes and refines the tools the other three depend on, week over week.
A loop that never quite stops.
Boring, durable parts — top to bottom.
From the pings that reach my phone down to the server it all runs on. Each layer is real and swappable.
The agents still surface noise. They've nagged me about things I'd already done and missed things I hadn't. Every week is a round of teaching them what actually matters. That's the project.
The dashboard is where it actually runs — most of it private.
Agent logs, the wiki, what's being tracked right now. It's gated on purpose — most of what's in there is my real life. If you're curious, ask me for a look inside.