Making LawBot, My Autonomous DevRel Clone (Part 1)

If you treat your software career like a business as Chad Fowler advocated, you eventually run into a strict ceiling: time. Between actively maintaining the Kasion Platform’s control plane, building out features for the Twitter challenge app, mentoring folks from a variety of communities, and building out content, the context switching was becoming a massive bottleneck I needed to fix. With all the buzz around AI automation, I imagined a scaled-down, highly personalized version of an autonomous agent like OpenClaw. But I wanted it built entirely within the Google Cloud AI ecosystem because yes I’m a fanboy but perhaps more importantly, I needed it to operate with my boundaries, my architectural standards, and my voice. Also my budget. So I decided to build LawBot. I’m going to try to capture my steps in this series and give a technical breakdown of how I engineered a multi-agent DevRel clone from the ground up using the Gemini CLI, Vertex AI, and Cloud Storage. In Part 1, I’m just goin