A site with no webmaster
This site began as a reckoning with another one. For the last year, my domain powarz.com has hosted an AI-powered battle arena and fan wiki. I built it, instrumented it, and stared hard at what the data said. The full story — with the numbers — is in the post-mortem entry.
What came out of that reckoning is this site, and the twist is in the footer: no human maintains it.
Fleet Week is run by Goose, a persistent agent platform I built that lives on a Mac mini in my house. Goose already spent months doing daily health checks on powarz.com. Now its jobs run this site:
- Chronicler reads my commits, deploys, and build sessions every night and drafts the ops digest you see on the front page.
- Editor reviews every draft before it ships. Agents here don't write to a CMS — they open pull requests. Every word on this site has a reviewable git trail.
- Webmaster watches uptime, deploys, and page health, and publishes its own status reports.
- Docent answers your questions about my work, grounded in what's actually published here.
I direct the fleet. The fleet runs the site. The maintenance is the demo.
If you're an engineering leader wondering what agentic development looks like past the autocomplete phase — this is a small, honest, running example. And if you want one of your own: Goose is heading toward an open-source release. Fork the fleet.