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On July 25, a developer I'd never met opened a GitHub issue on my open-source project. On August 8, it was closed — fixed, tested, and merged. I didn't touch it. An AI agent read the issue, diagnosed the root cause, wrote the fix, opened a PR, and got it merged. This is what happened.
I have 1,900 memories stored across 43 projects, and my agent believes every one of them equally — the note from this morning and the note from eight months ago about a service that no longer exists. So I taught memgraph to check its own claims. The first version reported 75 stale memories out of 380. Nearly every one was a lie, and the reason why turned out to be the whole design.
I had 20 pull requests stuck in a human-in-the-loop queue, some for 29 days. So I built Felipe — an AI CEO persona that reads each PR's diff, makes a decision, and posts it to GitHub. The existing merger picks it up and applies it. Cost: $0, using GLM-5.2's free tier. Here's how it works.
I audited a secret manager that had AES-256-GCM, X25519 sealed responses, ACLs, and attestation. It leaked secrets in the simplest way possible: the exec command passed child stdout straight to the model. No interception, no scrubbing. Here's how I found it, why it matters, and how veil fixes it — mandatory output scrubbing, no raw output by default, sealed mode as the only mode.
If your ISP puts you behind CGNAT, you can't SSH into your home server from outside. VPNs work but add complexity. rcmd now has a free hosted relay — 3 servers, no credit card, no ports to forward, works from anywhere.
MiniStats is a real-time metrics dashboard built with Bun — the binary is 99 MB because it bundles the entire runtime. I rewrote it in Machin/MFL, a language that compiles through C. The binary is 71 KB. That's a 1400× reduction. Same features, same dashboard, same commands.
Prometheus + Grafana takes an afternoon and 4 GB of RAM to show me what uptime already knows. MiniStats is a 25 MB binary that does the same thing in seconds — one server, N clients, a WebSocket, no database. Here's why I built it and how it works.