The Locksmith's Apprentice

A locksmith's apprentice installs a door with no lock. That's embarrassing. Now imagine the apprentice works for the company that invented the lock. That's what happened to my data. For eleven days. The Brain I run a self-hosted security operations center out of a 40ft fifth wheel RV. Fifty-plus Docker containers. Wazuh, CrowdSec, Suricata, Zeek, AdGuard, Grafana, Node-RED, Ghost... the whole stack. I manage all of it with a crew of AI stations running on Claude, Anthropic's model. I call it the 70/30 principle... the AI handles 70% of the execution. Research, drafting, analysis, options. I provide the 30% that actually matters. Decisions. Judgment. Taste. Edgy Gen-X Bullshit and fun little Easter Eggs 🥚. Risk acceptance. The human stays in the loop because the human has to stay in the loop. (Do you want Skynet? I don't want Skynet.) The problem with Claude is it forgets everything. Every conversation starts from zero. No memory of what happened yesterday. No memory of what broke last