The Actual Architecture Behind "My House Runs on an AI Agent"
The introduction post gave you the elevator pitch. This one is the wiring diagram — how a coding agent ends up running semi-persistently against real home infrastructure, how I talk to it from my phone on the other side of the planet, and what happens when a session runs for hours and hits a wall it wasn’t supposed to hit. It’s not a chat window. It’s a long-running process. The mental model that trips people up first: this isn’t “I open an app, type a question, get an answer, close the app.” The agent runs inside a coding CLI, and that CLI process needs to keep existing between the moments I’m actually typing to it — otherwise every session starts from zero, re-reading the whole repository to figure out what’s going on. ...