I Do Run AI Agents Overnight. Here's What Actually Matters.
Boundaries, supervision, evidence, and why unattended execution is not the same thing as unbounded autonomy.
Petie Clark — Applied AI Systems
Applied AI systems that survive contact with the business.
Field notes on agent orchestration, evaluation, authority boundaries, enterprise integration, deployment, and production operations.
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How I think about governed systems
Why I Prefer One Clear Source of Truth
Why tools can multiply while authority, state, and accountability still need one dependable home.
Why I Write Down the Rollback Before the Change
A deployment is not ready merely because the forward path looks convincing.
The Case for a Smaller Blast Radius
Production systems become trustworthy through bounded change, not theatrical confidence.
The Difference Between a Hobby and a Responsibility
Decision: I’m going to let hobbies justify themselves by curiosity and learning. I’m going to judge responsibilities by whether I can make their total cost legible and accept the tradeoffs that cost creates.
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The AI Productivity Paradox Is Real - But You Are Measuring the Wrong Thing
CEOs say AI isn't moving the needle on productivity. I've been running AI in production for months. Here's why they're both right and wrong — and what the actual measurement problem is.
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I Do Run AI Agents Overnight. Here's What Actually Matters.
A post about autonomous AI agents hit the top of HN this morning. I actually run them. Here's what I've learned about where they work, where they fail, and the 6 rules I've settled on.
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Every Few Months a New Model "Beats Whisper." This One Is Different.
Moonshine AI posted their open-weights speech-to-text toolkit on Hacker News this morning. 252 points in 13 hours. The top-line claim: higher accuracy than Whisper Large V3,
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The Vibe Code Backlash Is Real, And I'm Somewhere in the Middle
r/selfhosted just banned AI-vibe-coded projects except on Fridays. After running 100+ containers in production and building two SaaS products with AI assistance, here's where I actually land.
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Replacing VPNs with Tailscale: My 7-Node Mesh Network
I replaced my OpenVPN server with a 7-node Tailscale mesh. Zero config, sub-50ms latency, and actual zero-trust security. Here's why mesh networking beats traditional VPNs.
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Running 63 Docker Containers on a 16GB AWS Instance: A Post-Mortem
I run 63 Docker containers on a 16GB AWS instance serving 100+ users across 48 services. Here's how I keep it running for $87/month when SaaS would cost $1,200.
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My Homelab Grew Up: From Hobby to Production Infrastructure
Three years ago my homelab was a Raspberry Pi running Pi-hole and a Plex server. Today it's a multi-node cluster handling production workloads for paying clients.
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Baseline Setup, Part 6 – Automating the Rebuild with Git and Ansible
The final piece of the rebuild: how I use Ansible and Git to automate service deployment, node setup, and config management across my homelab—so I can rebuild fast when it matters.
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Baseline Setup, Part 5 – Service Visibility with Homepage
See how I deployed Homepage in Kubernetes to create a clean, fast, and live dashboard for my homelab. From grouped services to container health, it’s my daily launchpad.
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