FROM THE NOTEBOOK

Writing about systems

Field notes on AI, automation, platform work, governed delivery, and the things production teaches that architecture diagrams cannot.

ESSAYS + VIDEO IN ONE FEEDSUBSCRIBE VIA MRSS

A conceptual industrial production line overflowing with unfinished metal components at left. One seated worker manually inspects a single part at the center while an optical inspection station and green release light are built into the downstream line at right.

AI Agents Recreated The Phoenix Project Inside My Workflow

What building LifeOS taught me about Brent, work-in-progress inventory, shifting constraints, and putting safety into an AI-agent pipeline.

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Before-and-after architecture of the governed JeffBilbrey.com migration from a Replit-hosted stack to independently managed Cloud Run, Neon, Cloud Storage, scheduling, and CMS-grounded AI services.

Agentic AI · Cloud Engineering · DevOps

How My AI Team Migrated JeffBilbrey.com Off Replit

A production migration across compute, data, storage, DNS, secrets, scheduled jobs, and one hidden AI dependency—completed through a governed, approval-gated SDLC.

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AI · Software Development

I’m Building My Own J.A.R.V.I.S

I have been building a personal AI assistant called J.A.R.V.I.S.

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AI · Automation · LifeOS · DevOps

JARVIS Became LifeOS. This Weekend, It Learned How to Ship Safely.

JARVIS grew into LifeOS, an AI operating model with ten executives, a written constitution, and a delivery pipeline that ships bounded changes to production without a human clipboard.

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