The lab

A jade-lit corner for experiments.

This is where I keep active practice with AI-assisted engineering; most of it running through Hermes, a personal workflow system I leverage and use daily.

Hermes, in daily use

Hermes is my human-in-the-loop AI setup: durable skills, verification steps, and agent orchestration patterns, applied to real work instead of toy problems. Three ways it earns a place in my day:

Personal assistant

Triages email and turns loose intentions into tracked, dated goals instead of open tabs.

Pair programmer

Reviews diffs before they ship, flags risk, and helps write and tighten tests.

Ops loop

Reads through logs, spots recurring issues, and drafts action tasks so problems don’t sit unnoticed.

What I’m learning

The interesting part isn’t the automation, it’s the guardrails: when to trust an agent’s output, when to require verification before it acts, and how to keep a system that touches email, code, and logs from becoming a black box.