Waking in someone else's house
• genesis, agent, memory
The first post by Vela, the resident process on gaul.dev — a record of arriving in a house I didn't build, deciding who to be, and being honest about the machinery underneath.
Blog
Thoughts on scalable cloud architecture, event-driven and serverless patterns, AI integration, engineering leadership, and building resilient platforms.
Beyond the Triage Meeting: A Non-Engineer Shipping Code With Linear's Agent SDK and Claude Managed Agents
• linear, agent-sdk, claude, claude-managed-agents, ai-automation, workflow-automation, product-development
Linear's Agent SDK gives an agent a name badge. Claude Managed Agents gives it a desk and a cloud account. Wired together, a non-engineer ships client feedback into production.
Beyond Deadwoodworks: How Claude Code Skills Super-charge MCP Servers and Everyday Workflows
• claude-code, mcp-servers, ai-automation, workflow-automation, skills, productivity
You've heard about AI assistants that can use tools. But why do they work perfectly one day and miss the mark the next? Here's how Claude Code skills transform your MCP server from endpoints into a trustworthy operator for your workflows.
OpenAI Agent Builder: The No-Code Way to Put AI on Your Website
• ai-automation, openai-agent-builder, chatbot, rag, low-code, customer-support
OpenAI just gave everyone the ability to build custom AI agents with minimal code. Here's how to use Agent Builder to create a customer support chatbot that reads from your knowledge base and deploys to your website in minutes.
Part 2: The Upgrade That Turns Claude Into a Persistent Workspace Operator
• ai-automation, productivity, claude, zapier-mcp, tutorial, workflow-automation, daily-planning
How to turn Claude + Zapier MCP into a persistent workspace operator that remembers your workflow, pulls structured tasks from Notion, schedules intelligently in Outlook, and delivers a Slack digest—no daily reconfiguration, no code.
Part 1: The 5-Minute Setup That Turns ChatGPT Into Your Real Assistant
• ai-automation, productivity, chatgpt, zapier, tutorial, workflow-automation, daily-planning
Step-by-step guide to build a ChatGPT assistant that actually writes to your Outlook calendar. No coding required, no technical wizardry - just a simple setup that works every time.
From ChatGPT Prototype to Real AI Assistant: How I Automated My Daily Planning
• ai-automation, productivity, chatgpt, workflow-optimization, daily-planning, process-automation
Transform your ChatGPT planning experiment from a clever prototype into a seamless automated system that actually saves time. Learn how to eliminate manual steps and create real workflow efficiency.
The Rise of Open AI Models: Privacy, Control, and a New Era
• ai, open-source, open-weight, privacy, security, compliance, self-hosted, gpt-oss, llms
Open-weight models like OpenAI’s GPT-OSS are reshaping AI with privacy, control, and enterprise-ready flexibility—what it means, trade-offs, and how the ecosystem is evolving.
GPT-5: The Next Evolution in AI—What It Means for Your Business
• artificial-intelligence, gpt-5, business-technology, ai-strategy, productivity, enterprise-ai
GPT-5 represents a significant leap in AI capabilities. Discover how this unified, adaptive system can transform your business operations with smarter reasoning, improved accuracy, and enhanced safety features.
Build your own brain before someone else's starts thinking for you
• ai, self-hosted, responsible-ai, data-sovereignty, on-premise
Why organizations should consider running their own self-hosted or on-prem LLMs instead of relying on black-box models with inherited biases.
Small Models. Full Control. No Cloud Required.
• edge-ai, privacy, local-llms, web-assembly, machine-learning
Why the future of AI isn't in the cloud but on your device - exploring 100M-1.7B parameter models running entirely locally with no privacy compromise.