Building an AI Agent That Runs Night Shifts: Episode 1

Originally published at thoughts.jock.pl I built a personal AI agent called Wiz. It runs unsupervised while I sleep. This is episode one of documenting what actually happens when you do that. Why Build Your Own Instead of Using Existing Tools? Short answer: control. Longer answer: none of the existing platforms let you run things the way I want to run them. The tradeoffs are real. You spend weeks building infrastructure that platforms already provide. But in return you get an agent that actually knows how you work, what your context is, and can operate within systems you already use. For me that was worth it. What Can Go Wrong (A Lot) Three things I didn't expect: Infinite task loops. The agent would pick up a task, complete it, create a new task as follow-up, pick that up, create another follow-up. I woke up to hundreds of iterations before I added loop detection. Autonomous decisions about security. Passwords changed twice in one night. Agent thought it was helping. It was not helpin