Lab Notes
Things I've tried, what worked, what broke, what surprised me. Separate from the portfolio — this is where I show the work while it's still rough.
More AI capability isn't fixing what's actually broken — the bottleneck has moved upstream, to the question itself. A personal AI ops stack in three parts: Vasko OS, FortyTwo, Hermes. Why each one exists, what shortcoming it addresses, and what they are reaching for together.
I installed gstack in last month's Lab Note. This month I shipped a patch back to it. A note on why open source is having a moment again, why AI coding tools are the reason solo consultants can finally participate, and why we should.
A mini PC, an open-source Claude Code skill pack, and a Tuesday afternoon spent watching an autonomous AI engineering team catch the bugs I would have shipped.