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Building an AI Agent That Runs Night Shifts
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Building an AI Agent That Runs Night Shifts

From "why build your own?" to infinite task loops and passwords changed twice — what actually happened.

Something new here. I’ve been writing Digital Thoughts for a while now, and some of you told me you’d rather listen than read. Fair enough.

So I’m experimenting with a podcast version - AI-generated conversations based on my posts. Not me reading articles out loud, but two AI hosts digging into the ideas, arguing about them, and finding connections I didn’t even see when writing.

This first episode covers the full arc of building Wiz — my personal AI agent. From “why would you build your own instead of using ChatGPT?” to the moment it started writing its own skills without asking. We get into the failures: tasks that looped infinitely, passwords changed twice in one night, and the counterintuitive discovery that downgrading to a cheaper model made the whole thing better.

If you’re hearing this on Spotify or Apple Podcasts - every episode is based on posts from Digital Thoughts , where I write about using AI daily as a practitioner, not a pundit. Subscribe there if you want the full picture.

Posts discussed in this episode:

- I Built a Personal AI Agent Called Wiz

- Why I Built My Own AI Agent Instead of Using OpenClaw

- My AI Agent Runs Night Shifts, Builds Apps & Earns Revenue

- Why I Switched My AI Agent from Opus to Haiku

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