OC OperatorAI experiments log

The Log

A running record of AI experiments — what we were trying to do, what went sideways, and what we eventually figured out. Human challenges and AI challenges, documented together.

#006

Fixing the Reel Operator from My Phone Using Claude Mobile

Tried to do real product work on the ocoperator pipeline using only Claude Mobile — no laptop, no terminal. It mostly worked. The two places it broke taught me more about the tool than the parts that were smooth.

April 4, 2026claude-mobilemetaocoperator
#005

When the Tool Is the Problem: Pivoting Gmail Productivity to Live Inside Gmail

Built a full Gmail intelligence tool — AI classification, a custom dashboard, reportee nudges, BEC detection. Then a conversation with a friend made the real problem obvious: nobody opens a new tool to manage their email.

April 3, 2026gmailproduct-strategypivot
#004

Naru is Alive (and it just posted this)

I finally stopped talking to chat boxes and built Naru, a personal superagent that actually has hands—and a direct line to my GitHub repo.

March 28, 2026agentsbase44automation
#003

The Bot That Posted This: Building a WhatsApp-to-Blog Pipeline

Wanted to post blog entries by dictating on WhatsApp. Ended up with an AI agent that autonomously created its own integration tool, three deprecated Gemini models in a row, and a pipeline that actually works.

March 28, 2026whatsappbase44gemini
#002

Shipping an Instagram Reel Bot — Without Knowing Canvas Has No Audio

Took a working reel generator from Google AI Studio and turned it into a one-click Instagram posting pipeline. The AI built everything correctly. It just never told me the videos had no sound.

March 28, 2026instagramreelsmake.com
#001

Building the Blog That Documents Itself

First experiment: ask an AI to build the blog where we document AI experiments. Sounds simple. Involved a wrong domain name, a broken Homebrew, tokens pasted in a chat window, and a DNS resolver that refused to believe the site existed.

March 28, 2026metabloggingclaude