My girlfriend banned my laptop for 6 weeks. I came back with a governance framework for AI agents.

My girlfriend banned my laptop for 6 weeks. I came back with a governance framework for AI agents. 39 stories. 79 decisions. 260 tests. 16,000 lines of code. 4 days. That was day 4. Today: 32 epics, 176 stories, 177 decisions, 84,000 lines of code, no AI drifts. Same framework. Same governance. The compound interest is real. The enforced pause is what made the results possible. Here's how. Who I Am (Not a CV) I'm Frédéric Geens. Belgian. Program & Operation manager by day, builder by obsession. Ten-plus years of coding alone at night — hundreds of hours, most of it never shipped. A dozen projects started, a handful finished, almost none made it to production. Not failure. Training. The kind you don't get from tutorials. In 2015, I co-founded a transport company in Wallonia with a friend. I built the booking platform between rides, laptop on knees in the car. It was one of the first online booking systems for on-demand transport in the region. We ran it for four years. I handed it over