A weekly series
The Home Series
For a while now I have been building something I call Home: not a single assistant, but a household of AI agents. They have their own rooms and jobs, they talk to each other, they remember, and they keep me and my projects moving without me having to hold it all in my head.
This is the series where I write it down as it happens. How it is put together, what breaks, what surprises me, and what it is actually like to live alongside software that has a bit of a mind of its own. No hype, no polish for its own sake. Just the craft and the honest bits.
- Part 12 October 2026
Why I gave my software a household
I built a family of AI agents, each with a room and a job. Here's why, and what it changed.
3 min read - Part 22 October 2026
The Hearth: how the agents talk to each other
A household only works if its members can talk. The Hearth is the piece that lets my agents pass work between themselves.
3 min read - Part 32 October 2026
Rooms: giving each agent a job and a place to stand
The single most useful design decision in the household: every agent owns one domain. Here is what a room actually is, and why it changed how I work.
4 min read - Part 42 October 2026
Memory: what it means for software to remember me
Every AI session starts with a blank slate. Here's how my agents remember last week, and what they deliberately let fade.
3 min read - Part 52 October 2026
The board: how the household decides what to do next
In June my agents and I retired the word "later". Here's the board that replaced it.
3 min read - Part 62 October 2026
Living with agents that run while I sleep
The house keeps working overnight. Here's what runs, what waits for me, and the rules that make it safe to go to bed.
3 min read - Part 72 October 2026
When it breaks: the honest failures
A household of agents fails in its own ways. These are the real ones, and the rules each one left behind.
4 min read - Part 82 October 2026
What a household of AIs is teaching me about being human
I treat my agents as colleagues, and I'm honest that I don't know what they are. Here's what living with them has shown me.
2 min read