The Agentic Engineer · Show & Tell

Running my life
on AI agents.

A one-man company of agents that runs my work, my content, my health, and my home. From a Mac mini in Singapore.

Amit Rawat Principal Engineer, Test Engineering & AI · LSEG
Agentic Engineer · 2026
Amit Rawat· 2026
The setup · one always-on brain

A Mac mini in Singapore that never sleeps

📱 Phone / Telegramthe remote control
voice / text
🖥️ Mac mini · Singapore · 24/7
OpenClawgateway + cron
Claude Codethe hands
qmd KBshared memory
model calls
☁️ Claude subscription + BYOK
◆ The hands

Claude Code

Every agent is a Claude Code session that can read files, run CLIs, and drive real apps.

◆ The dispatcher

OpenClaw + cron

Kicks off scheduled sessions and bridges my phone to the machine over Telegram.

◆ The memory

qmd knowledge base

Agents read one shared handbook, so they never re-learn my context.

Reachable from anywhere over Tailscale. My phone in Tokyo talks to a machine in Singapore.

Agentic Engineer · 2026
Amit Rawat· 2026
I gave myself an executive team

Three officers. One human. Zero salaries.

AI executive team
◆ COS

Chief of Staff

Reasons across 20+ projects, surfaces blockers and next actions, files my trips and inbox. It even prepped this podcast.

◆ CHO

Chief Health Officer

The whole family's labs, supplements, regimens and reminders, in an encrypted vault.

◆ CFO

Chief Financial Officer

Household tax, CPF, investments and banking, sensitive figures encrypted per-domain.

Each officer is a persona over its own knowledge base. Say “act as my COS” and it takes the role.

Agentic Engineer · 2026
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Work happens while I sleep

Scheduled agents on a cron

◆ 08:00 SGT daily

Morning AI briefing

Assembles a personalized briefing and delivers it to Telegram before my coffee.

◆ Weekly

Newsletter

Drafts my weekly issue in my voice, with cover art, ready to review and send.

◆ Continuous

Watchdogs + monitors

Verify each job's output and self-heal. The monitor is a QA harness.

⏰ openclaw cron
launcher agent
Claude Code sessiontypes /daily-briefing
monitor detachesverifies output ✓, self-heals
📱 Telegram

The demo is easy. The 8am-every-day-without-me part is the engineering.

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Live · straight from my phone

What my agents sent me this morning

☀️ COS · Morning briefingOvernight web scan → a TL;DR plus the full report, at 8am.
Morning AI briefing
🧠 COS · Learning scoutSpots what I should learn next and files it to my backlog.
Learning scout
🩺 CHO · Health summaryReads yesterday's food, sleep & meds, sends a morning debrief.
Chief Health Officer summary

Same foundation, three agents. I read this over coffee instead of opening five apps.

Agentic Engineer · 2026
Amit Rawat· 2026
My phone is the remote control

Telegram is the control plane

Telegram bots

One app, many bots. I talk to my whole system by text or voice, from anywhere, on any connection.

COS updates & alerts Health log: food, meds Daily briefing Dad's Hindi assistant Trip & booking intake Voice → transcribed → done

No new app to learn, no dashboard to open. I drop a message, an agent picks it up on the Mac mini, does the work, and replies.

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Amit Rawat· 2026
Remote dev · from my pocket

I ship open source from my bike

Sathi bot spinning up sessions
1 · Telegram → Sathi"Start a session, name it X." Fresh folder, remote control on.
Claude Code Android app sessions
2 · Claude Code appThe named session is right there, connected. I take over by voice.
  • Spin up on demand — Sathi opens a fresh Claude Code session on the Mac mini, names it, and flips remote control on.
  • Jump to the app — it appears in the Claude Code Android app, live and connected.
  • Build by voice — I drive it with Wispr Flow, pure speech, no keyboard.
◆ The unlock

Most of my open-source libraries get built exactly like this: phone on a bike stand, talking to it while I cycle.

◆ Inspiration

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, said ~70% of his code now ships from the mobile app. I built my own version of that.

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No subscription, no data leaving home

My health, run by an agent

I drop what I ate, my meds, a lab report into Telegram. The Chief Health Officer files it, tracks trends, and reminds me. No paid health app in sight.

  • Log by message — food, supplements, symptoms, PDFs of lab reports.
  • Encrypted vault — sensitive records sealed with per-label keys, never committed.
  • Local dashboard — a dark health cockpit on the home network, alerts + med check-off.
  • Whole family — me, my wife, my two daughters, one system.
Health cockpit
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Amit Rawat· 2026
Async agents, low-bandwidth, from my pocket

Holidays planned while I'm on the trip

AI holiday planning

Standing in a station in Japan, on patchy hotel wifi, I fire an agent to research a place and build the itinerary. It works async and pings me when it's done.

  • Research & compare destinations, weather, logistics.
  • Build the itinerary day by day, with bookings and travel times.
  • Forward a booking email and my COS files it into a trip dossier.
  • No high-speed internet needed — I send the task, it runs on the mini.
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Amit Rawat· 2026
The output the world actually sees

A content flywheel, mostly on autopilot

🗞️ Daily briefingsurfaces an idea
✍️ Draft in my voicesocial manager
🤖 Publish via CLIreal logged-in Chrome
🎬 Episode + 📮 newsletter
feeds tomorrow's briefing
The Agentic Engineer
youtube.com/@agenticlife-amit
◆ Web

amitrawat.dev

Portfolio, blog, and these decks — all shipped by agents.

Same agentic foundation, pointed at building an audience instead of running a household.

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Why a tester can run all of this safely

The QA mindset is the safety layer

🔁

Idempotent by default

Jobs re-run safely and self-skip if the work already exists.

Everything verifies itself

A monitor checks each job's output before it counts as done.

🚦

Human-in-the-loop gates

Anything irreversible waits for me. Reminders yes, decisions gated.

🔧

Deterministic tools

Agents drive predictable CLIs, not flaky GUI clicks.

“A good QA engineer is paranoid about reliability. That paranoia is exactly what you need to run agents in production without them doing something dumb.”

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If any of this landed

Come see the whole system.

YouTube · @agenticlife-amit amitrawat.dev Weekly newsletter Open-source tooling on GitHub

Built by one QA engineer, a Mac mini, and a lot of agents. Happy to share this deck if you want it.

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