One Human, a Board and a Team of Agents: How I Build Software Now (and Why My Estimate Was Wrong)

The estimate said one human with four agents would need 76 weeks to build Horae, where three developers need 22. All the work agents could do was finished in 15 days.

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11Nov
Five Years of Swapped Circuits: an Afternoon with Claude to Put My Heat Pump the Right Way Roundnewread
Smart Home & Home Assistant Hitachi CSNet for Home Assistant
11 min
10Nov
Who Is Really Using My Fibre? Mirroring Every Packet to a Raspberry Pi with ntopngnewread
Self-Hosting
32 min
10Nov
Jev 1.14 and Kev-4B: a Better Classifier That Routes Pricier, and an Open Model That Almost Routes Like Jevnewread
AI & AI Coding Agents Jev & System One
18 min
9Nov
Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again? Monitoring a Home Network So You Know What Brokenewread
Self-Hosting
21 min
3Nov
One Year Later: I Asked a Stronger Model to Review My Vibe-Coded Appread
AI & AI Coding Agents Cyber Code Academy
16 min
31Oct
Home Assistant Ships Every Month: a CI That Reads the Release Notes, Opens an Issue and Waits for a Labelread
DevOps & Infrastructure Hitachi CSNet for Home Assistant
17 min
26Oct
Laya on an N100: Swapping Jev for a Local Model in Home Assistant, and Teaching It My House with Hindsightread
Smart Home & Home Assistant Jev & System One
20 min
20Oct
Three Agents at 95% Don't Give You 99.99%: The Maths of Asking Twiceread
AI & AI Coding Agents
19 min
20Oct
Your Agents Ship Fast. Make Them Pass a Release Gate Firstread
AI & AI Coding Agents ai-finance-coach
12 min
19Oct
Six Weeks in One Night: How a Product Gets Built in the Agentic Eraread
AI & AI Coding Agents Graft
15 min

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One Human, a Board and a Team of Agents: How I Build Software Now (and Why My Estimate Was Wrong)

The latest pages newest first

Five Years of Swapped Circuits: an Afternoon with Claude to Put My Heat Pump the Right Way Roundnewread

Who Is Really Using My Fibre? Mirroring Every Packet to a Raspberry Pi with ntopngnewread

Jev 1.14 and Kev-4B: a Better Classifier That Routes Pricier, and an Open Model That Almost Routes Like Jevnewread

Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again? Monitoring a Home Network So You Know What Brokenewread

One Year Later: I Asked a Stronger Model to Review My Vibe-Coded Appread

Home Assistant Ships Every Month: a CI That Reads the Release Notes, Opens an Issue and Waits for a Labelread

Laya on an N100: Swapping Jev for a Local Model in Home Assistant, and Teaching It My House with Hindsightread

Three Agents at 95% Don't Give You 99.99%: The Maths of Asking Twiceread

Your Agents Ship Fast. Make Them Pass a Release Gate Firstread

Six Weeks in One Night: How a Product Gets Built in the Agentic Eraread

Projects I keep writing about follow one project from post to post

Dashboards the numbers behind the posts