This site just split in two.
The business — an AI-first software & design studio for the German real estate industry — moved to maelstromlab.com. What’s left here is the part I actually want on my personal domain: projects, experiments, and notes from trying to automate myself out of a job.
The experiment
The premise is simple: I’m one engineer, and I run multiple products — Leverage, Nora AI, a few smaller things. That shouldn’t be possible with a 24-hour day, and it isn’t. It works because most of the work isn’t done by me anymore.
The setup, roughly:
- A monorepo where AI agents work on short-lived branches with hard rules: never touch
main, gates must be green, PRs get reviewed by me. - Agents with defined personalities and boundaries (that’s what agentsgym came out of).
- Me as the bottleneck for exactly two things: taste and trust. Everything else is delegated or automated.
This site — both of them, actually — was built that way. An agent read the old code, wrote the plan, split the repo, and shipped the redesign. I reviewed the diff.
What goes here
Shorter, nerdier notes: agent workflows that worked (and the ones that failed), build logs from the products, and the occasional ASCII art detour. If you want the polished pitch, that’s maelstromlab.com. This is the lab notebook.
$ tail -f ~/blog.log
# you are here