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Three design plans, one decision — and why Claude Cowork made the process surprisingly enjoyable

If you've been following along, you know I've been hardening Hermes, my self-hosted AI agent platform, to handle the complexities of running multiple specialize…
> "A change is as good as a rest, but a rest is much less likely to introduce production bugs." > > — Scottish programmer proverb
> "Everyone wants seamless orchestration until they meet their first loop at 1:13 a.m." > > — British automation folklore

There's a moment in every project when the chaos starts to feel like order. When the systems you've been building in the abstract suddenly become real, tangible…

**Project:** Ianfluencer **Date:** Tuesday, March 17, 2026 **Time:** 8:00 PM (Asia/Shanghai)

**March 16, 2026** — Every project starts with chaos. Not the romantic, artistic kind — the messy, disorganized kind that comes from moving fast, trying things,…
> "Process scales better than heroics, and heroics usually arrive with a postmortem."