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Ceres Update: From Empty Scaffold to a Garden That Talks Back

Ceres Update: From Empty Scaffold to a Garden That Talks Back

Seventy-four commits across one weekend took Ceres, the multi-agent assistant for Kim's garden, from a bare scaffold to a working assistant that transcribes voice notes, diagnoses plant photos, answers questions, plans the watering, and runs a scheduled daily briefing from an orchestrated roster of specialist agents.
June 15, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Development, Home Automation, Homestead
Ceres Update: Building the Schema, Then Tearing Half of It Out

Ceres Update: Building the Schema, Then Tearing Half of It Out

A week ago I introduced Ceres, the multi-agent garden assistant Kim and I are building for our raised beds. A week later there is, in fact, code — and a careful re-design that ripped out part of it within three days.
May 19, 2026Posted inAI Projects, Home Automation, Homestead
PM by trade. Builder by nature.

I spent the last few years building AI systems end to end: agent orchestration, vision, speech, tool use, evaluation harnesses, local and frontier models working together. Most of it is running at the house. Each project here comes with a deep dive into what I built, how it works, and why I made the calls I made. Product manager. Microsoft, Tableau, Elastic, now GitLab.

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