One machine. Never sleeps.
A machine of its own for the agents she already uses, so the work carries on when she shuts the laptop.
Chapters
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0:00Back for the third time, and the machine is already bought -
0:48Two apps she built on her own since the last session -
1:39A money laundering check she walks a client through -
2:56Who she asked about which computer to buy -
3:44A hard drive and a battery, because it has to stay on -
6:16Naming a project so you can still find it in a year -
11:06One prompt: Ubuntu, the tabs, an install script, a fixed address -
18:43A second agent, sent to look at the router -
22:36Reaching the agent from her phone -
51:22Locked out of her own router -
59:57The first flasher, and a disk too big for it -
1:09:36A second flasher, and the image is written -
1:20:59Back into the router -
1:26:55"It is turned off" -
1:29:33Installing Ubuntu on somebody else's machine, remotely -
1:30:34It boots, and she logs in with the key -
1:32:00The computer arrived a week ago. She started a month ago. -
1:39:36Her terminal cannot hold the tabs open -
1:41:12A different terminal, and the word is multiplexer -
1:42:59Start moving the projects across -
2:06:55She closes the window, and the tabs come back -
2:10:03Claude Code, installed on the server itself -
2:22:28Auto mode instead of the three letters -
2:28:13Logging the server into GitHub -
2:32:23Twenty three projects and their credentials, moved -
2:48:49Seven tabs open, and she is not a developer -
2:50:12Turning the laptop's scheduled agents off -
2:52:28She works out the tab completion herself -
3:00:52The signing agent stops watching a folder and goes to the internet -
3:14:52One command that runs a plan to the end -
3:17:59A shared folder, so files can reach the box -
3:32:53A web page instead of an artifact -
3:37:12Two weeks, then the laptop gets itself back -
3:38:43A backup to the drive, every night
The session
Her third time in the chair, and the first one where the thing being built was not software. She had bought the computer, put the memory in herself because it was cheaper that way, and picked the parts by asking her agent rather than by asking him. Somewhere in the fortnight since the last session she had also built two more apps on her own, one for onboarding a client and one for walking through a money laundering check, and mentioned both in the first minute the way you mention what you did at the weekend.
So the evening was an install and a move. One prompt described the whole server and the agent wrote the script for it. The first flasher refused the four terabyte disk, a second one took it, and she carried the box downstairs, plugged it into the router and the battery, and came back up. It answered on the first try. By the end her laptop’s terminal was holding tabs that live on the server, twenty three projects had moved across with their keys and their memory, and the automations that used to run while the lid was open had been turned off on the laptop and re-planned on the machine that never closes.
The part that did not get finished is on the tape too. Reaching the server from outside the house needs the router opened up, and the router had a password nobody remembered. It was reset off stream, and the rest was left for a quieter evening rather than done at speed in front of an audience. Her phone reaches it already. The laptop keeps its old setup for another fortnight, and then it gets itself back.
What did Adrienn build? What Adrienn said afterwards
I've used AI in my work for a few years now, and it's helped a lot. But through MWK, Mate taught me how to actually make it mine — tailored to how I actually work, not just generic use. Before, I was just wishing for tools like automatic signed document allocation; with Mate's guidance, I had it set up within 2 hours. It genuinely felt like a wish came true.
Keeping up with the latest AI tools feels essential these days, and this is exactly the kind of practical, hands-on skill everyone should be building. Clear, patient, and genuinely useful teaching — I can hardly wait for our next session. Highly recommend to anyone who wants real, applicable skills rather than just a demo.
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