Building autonomous AI infrastructure on consumer hardware.
What 92,653 indexed Claude Code conversation turns reveal about how a single developer actually uses AI tools. 11 billion cache_read tokens, top tools, biggest sessions, and the workflow shape that emerges from the data.
An operating philosophy made explicit: when stuck, just keep moving. Why momentum compounds in solo infrastructure work, and the three disciplines (branch-first, code-review, reversibility) that prevent it from becoming recklessness.
The discipline of shipping every infrastructure change with its own undo. Paired up/down migrations, env-gated features, and why the cost of being wrong should always be bounded.
A regex pattern that almost wrote live API keys into a searchable database in cleartext. A code review caught it in five minutes. Defense-in-depth for privacy redactors.
A second Postgres database for raw session telemetry. Why curated memory and raw evidence want different homes, and how to federate search across both.
The afternoon I discovered I'd been about to launch a product into a CNCF-graduated project's namespace. Six hours of naming, a Stripe-style sub-brand architecture, and the discipline of namespace-checks at commercial inflection points.
What happens when you give a data lake a nervous system. Schema-on-read, auto-embedding, auto-linking, and a knowledge graph that learns from what works.
How a homelab project turned into an auto-data lake for AI agent memory, and what it looks like to build infrastructure that might become a company.
Zero dollars per month on AI API calls. Local-first isn't a limitation — it's an architecture decision with real technical advantages.
Whisper STT, GLaDOS TTS, Gemma 4 function calling, and Home Assistant. A fully local voice pipeline across a homelab.
27 autonomous workers, a 20-step DAG pipeline, and GPU coordination on Apple Silicon. Security reviews, code reviews, and tech digests ready by morning.
I mapped my homelab infrastructure to neuroscience. Coquina is the hippocampus, the thalamus filters MQTT events, and the amygdala runs a nightly security review. Here's how it works.