DevOps notes

About 20 AI bots, one decisions queue, a daily health check and a lot of drafts. How I run my Grok Bot setup today, and where it goes next.

You can buy the models. You can't buy the bridge. Fund the boring bits, back your people, start in non-prod, and a real example from my Google Photos today.

What a Massive Transformative Purpose is, what makes a good one, and a late-night epiphany where I think I found mine. Details soon. Watch this space.

Health app for my dad bod: mockups, Flutter, then friends on Play internal testing. Grok Bot did the build; I did the Console clicks.

I dug into the public reports. Hugging Face feels like students cheating on a test. Services Australia getting hit concerns me — and it looks like unintended goal-seeking, not a classic targeted hack.

I pointed a tiny local model at repetitive classify/draft work so cloud credits stay for judgment. 0.5b fails simple labels; 1.5b is usable. Harness next.

Local Linux admin, job apps, screenshots, hand-over, always-on agents, and a laptop + VM screen you can actually watch.

DHH’s Arch-like distro made the install easy, packaged Grok Bot, and gave me a clean reason to leave Claude Cowork.

7.5 years, Aware Super merger, Melb→Sydney, first child — and a LinkedIn note on closing the door.

Successor fund transfer to Aware Super, and redundancies rolling as the operating model closes.

MoU day — uncertain for everyone, after years of Azure platforms, DR, and hands-on DevOps.

Excellent for job applications and building this site — weaker for local computer-use, and the chat / cowork / code split felt fragmented.

Promising at first. Then stuck states, breakage, and local models that never quite installed or ran reliably.