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Blog series · 6 parts
Building My Own AI Agent
Agent vs. chatbot: why a background AI worker beats a promptable chat for daily routines — the experience of a special education teacher.
Start with part 1 6 parts · June 2026 · ~50 min total
Series · part 1/6Why I Built My Own AI Agent Instead of Just Using ChatGPTAgent vs. chatbot: why a background AI worker beats a promptable chat for daily routines — the experience of a special education teacher.June 9, 2026 · 5 min
Series · part 2/6When Your AI Assistant Becomes an Operating System: The OpenClaw LessonOpenClaw grew into 30 launchd tasks and three task lists. The story of why my AI assistant turned into a mini operating system.June 9, 2026 · 8 minSeries · part 3/6Eight Expensive Lessons, Part 1: When AI Fails Silently22% of my weekly AI budget burned in one night. Four expensive and silent mistakes from building my AI agent — and what I learned.June 11, 2026 · 8 min
Series · part 4/6Eight Expensive Lessons, Part 2: When an Agent Turns Against ItselfA self-learning skill, a fallback flip, and an agent that almost shut itself down: four lessons on the limits of an autonomous AI agent.June 16, 2026 · 9 minSeries · part 5/6From Chaos to Control: Why I Switched My Entire Agent PlatformI switched my agent from OpenClaw to Hermes: one gateway, searchable memory, and automations that finally work. From chaos to control.June 18, 2026 · 9 min
Series · part 6/6The Agent System Isn't a Project But a Process: What I Learned This YearWhat a year of building my own AI agent taught me about reliability, memory, and trust—and what is still honestly incomplete.June 18, 2026 · 9 min
Standalone · PedagogyHow I Use AI in Assessment — and What I Never Let It DecideI use AI to draft feedback, translate criteria into plain language and differentiate assignments. The teacher decides the grade — here's how I keep that line in place in practice.July 10, 2026 · 4 min
Standalone · PedagogyHow I Audited My Own Moodle Course with One CommandI built an agent that reads a Moodle course backup and checks structure, Bloom levels and curriculum coverage. My own course got an honest report: 289 activities, 83 duplicates and one 137-activity section.July 10, 2026 · 3 min
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