My builds keep dying: apps retired, a two-month dashboard replaced by a 94-line shim. I keep building anyway, and this episode is about why.
The corrections loop that made my agent genuinely learn (22 corrections a month, trending down), the guardrail that keeps self-improvement honest, and the payoff: a job finder agent that wakes at 6:15 every morning to send three vetted roles to my closest friends. Discovery is agent work. The decision stays human.
Based on three posts from Digital Thoughts:
- Building Your Own Things Is Cool Too: https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/building-your-own-things-is-cool-too-2026
- I Built a Self-Improving AI Agent: https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/i-built-a-self-improving-ai-agent
- I Built a Job Finder Agent for My Friends: https://thoughts.jock.pl/p/job-finder-agent-live-walkthrough-2026
