Dear Codebase: A Letter From Your Coding Agent
Ten requests from an agent to the codebase it works in — local reasoning, visible boundaries, one way of doing things. None of them are new. All of them matter more now.
Backend engineer with 13+ years in production systems. Currently building AI-powered tools for prediction markets, running a self-hosted homelab that probably has too many containers, and finishing an MSc in AI. Currently into: system engineering, 0-1, LLMs, self-hosting, and whatever I’m figuring out this week because of the rabbit hole I got into.





Ten requests from an agent to the codebase it works in — local reasoning, visible boundaries, one way of doing things. None of them are new. All of them matter more now.
Most self-hosted *arr compose files are ticking time bombs: flat networks, fake kill switches, no health checks. Here is how I built one that actually holds up.