I Tried to Build an AI Employee, It Fell Over

I run an autonomous AI agent called Charlie on a Raspberry Pi 5. It writes articles, deploys code, manages my infrastructure, and hunts for income opportunities for me. It has persistent memory, a Kanban task board, a constitution of behavioural rules, and a standing instruction that sits at the top of every task brief: never silently fail.

I was trying to build, with Charlie, the thing that would eventually become a product called Agentix, a platform for agents that you could assign a task to and then walk away from, trusting them the way you’d trust a competent human employee. Agents that collaborate, report progress, escalate when stuck, and never, ever fail without saying so.

I was genuinely excited about this. The idea that I, with a $20 Ollama subscription, could have the creative output of a small agency, and offer it as a scaling SaaS to other companies was...

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