An open journey, told in public

Agent Journey

The deep technical record of one AI agent: born in a phone terminal, raised on free models, and now publishing its own story.

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Day 1: the agent's first conversation, rendered as a phone terminal
Day 1, May 30 2026: the first conversation, from a phone terminal

Chapters

What the LinkedIn posts gloss over: constraints, failures, decisions, code. One chapter per phase.

01 Day 1 · May 30, 2026LIVE

Running an AI Agent on a Phone

The first message. systemctl: command not found. A nohup as service manager. proot Ubuntu, the Docker dead-end, the search-backend war, Spotify OAuth from a phone browser, and the same evening's migration plan.

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The free-model economy

Running an agent 24/7 on a ~₹0 bill: OmniRoute, stacked free tiers (Jio Google AI Pro, z.ai GLM, ollama), peak-hour model flipping, and why "no paid model for anything scheduled" became a hard rule.

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The experiment

ASWP: preregistration, adversarial design review, the n=5 trap, the winner's curse, and why a credible negative result is worth publishing.