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.
I shipped a video game about my local pub without writing a line of code. My mates are NPCs now. Notes from four autonomous milestones, a soft launch that humbled me in ten minutes, and a manifest doctrine that earned its keep three times in a day.
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.