One UTC day. A default-deny gitignore, a Rust crate, three live iMessage bugs fixed, a blog post, a public gist, a private repo. Reconstructed from the notes and transcripts of the day it happened.

“Just fork it” is increasingly viable.

A meta-agent that orchestrates agents to fully automate computer use.

whoops!

241 PRs, mostly from my phone.

an AI agent I control from my phone.

tmux is the best agent orchestrator.

give the agent a clean room and a task file.

In late 2023, I built Ibis Birdbrain – a “portable Python ML-powered data bot” under the Ibis project. It was an early attempt at what we’d now call an AI agent: language model tool use in a loop, applied to data work. It didn’t work. But the ideas were directionally accurate.

I had 197 starred repos and 12 star lists cluttering my GitHub. I knew Claude Code could clean it out. 9 minutes later it was done.

Here’s the transcript.