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Building for Autonomy

Thoughts on agent-first infrastructure, self-hosted systems, and owning the stack.

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Product · July 2026

GitOps for People with Three VPSes and No Kubernetes

My control plane deploys itself: push → build on the box → a human gate on email → atomic swap → health-or-rollback. One approval, one cent, zero LLM calls — and the pipeline lives in git, resolved fresh at execution. How it compares to ArgoCD and Jenkins, and the one twist neither can copy.

#gitops #deploy #roam #machin #argocd #jenkins
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Product · July 2026

POST a Spec, Walk Away, Get a Webhook: the roam Stack

Every agent dies with my terminal — so I built the stack that doesn't: roam (an agent you scp to a box), roam-panel (one-tap approvals on your phone), and roam-hub (a control plane that schedules, meters, and bills autonomous runs). All MIT, all single binaries, all machin.

#agents #roam #machin #autonomous #peage
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AI Engineering · July 2026

The Agent That Built a Game While I Watched the Filesystem

I handed a whole task — build a small physics game, then ship it — to an autonomous AI agent and walked away. For six minutes it looked completely dead. Here's the debugging story, the game it built (playable in your browser), and why the engineering around the agent is the part that matters.

#machin #ai-agents #webassembly #roam #game-dev
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