AI-Ops — the Operator Loop

A self-improving loop for automating my own life that hands back more time than it costs to run — and prunes itself when it doesn't. The system behind this whole site.

always-on box

The brain of the whole initiative, and the reason this site exists. A loop that runs on a fixed cadence: observe where my time actually went, score a backlog of candidate automations by the value they return divided by what they cost to keep alive, let me choose exactly one to build next (or nothing), build it as a reversible draft, adopt what proves itself, prune what rots.

Two ideas do the heavy lifting. Maintenance cost sits in the denominator of the score, so anything that needs constant babysitting self-prunes. And protected family time is config the system is forbidden to schedule over — the loop’s job is to hand time back, never to take it. “Build nothing this week” is a valid, healthy outcome.

This site is its public face: the method and the wins, written up plainly enough that you could build your own version.

Ship history

Family-time defense, live

The first always-on guardrail landed: an automation that defends protected hours, so the loop can never schedule over them.

Three report-only automations built

Defend, brief, and triage run report-only by default — they surface a recommendation; a human adopts each one before it ever acts.

The Operator Loop, scored

A scored leverage ledger turned the next-build choice into a ranked, upkeep-aware decision instead of a guess — toil that costs more than it saves self-prunes.


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