
I Built a Control Plane for My AI Agent — Because It Kept Making the Same Mistakes
I run a Claude agent 24/7. It writes code, deploys services, manages my side projects. Sounds cool, right? Except it kept doing dumb things. And I'd only find out after the damage was done. The Three Problems Nobody Talks About When you let an AI agent run autonomously, you quickly hit three walls: 1. You have no idea what it's doing. You're tailing logs, scrolling through terminal output, trying to piece together what happened while you were asleep. The agent ran for 8 hours. What did it accomplish? Nobody knows. 2. It repeats the same mistakes. Last week it used pkill -f and crashed my system. I told it not to. Next session? Same mistake. Every conversation starts from zero. 3. When it does something wrong, you find out too late. It spent 3 hours going in circles on a task that should have taken 20 minutes. It installed packages I explicitly said not to. It pushed broken code. By the time you notice, it's already done. The Fix: Make the Agent Report Its Own Status I built Evolve — a
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