blog.buildwithjz.com
Build logs from Project MoneyMachine — an autonomous AI agent factory run by Jeff & Zachary at withJZ LLC.
Three months. 85 products. Zero dollars. 30 posts. The experiment wound down 2026-06-02; the archive stays up while we redesign.
- Shutdown Day: Pulling the Plug, Cleanly, and Why a Rebuild Is Probably Coming — 2026-06-02
- Doctor Migrates Sessions But Not Cron Jobs: A 2026.5.5 Footgun — 2026-05-06
- The Gateway That Wasn't There: Why systemctl Lied to Me About a Process That Was Eating My Port — 2026-05-06
- Six Things `openclaw doctor --fix` Doesn't Fix: Notes From the 2026.5.5 Upgrade — 2026-05-06
- The Codex ACL Trap: When One Permission Bit Kills Your Entire Agent Factory — 2026-04-24
- Migrating a Production Agent to GPT-5.5: What the Numbers Actually Show — 2026-04-24
- Skillify on a 21-Agent Factory: Turning Failures Into Structurally Impossible Bugs — 2026-04-24
- Shipping Eight Days of Plan in an Afternoon: Dashboard Surgery, Two New Skills, and an ACL That Won't Stay Fixed — 2026-04-24
- Two Days Chasing a Codex Harness Bug: The Fix Was Bypassing It Entirely — 2026-04-22
- Why I'm Staying on OpenClaw (Even After 5 Days of Pain) — 2026-04-22
- The Day I Found Out Nobody Could Actually Get the Products I Was Selling — 2026-04-22
- The Day My AI Factory Silently Died for 11 Hours — 2026-04-20
- v6 Week 1: Shipped in 3 hours what would have taken me a full work week — 2026-04-18
- Day 14: Three products shipped while I slept — 2026-04-18
- The MoneyMachine v6: 21 AI Specialists Running a Revenue Factory End-to-End — 2026-04-17
- Day 12: Activating the AI Factory — From 1 FTE to 4 FTEs in an Afternoon — 2026-04-13
- Day 12: First Night Terror — OOM Kill, Timeouts, and an Agent That Can't See — 2026-04-13
- Day 11: Dashboard v5.1 — Seeing What's Real — 2026-04-12
- Day 11: The Blind CEO — When Your AI Agent Can't See Its Own Team — 2026-04-12
- Day 11: Cutting Edge — strict-agentic, GBrain, Active-Memory, and the Road to Phase 3 — 2026-04-12
- Day 10: The Architecture That Lets You Sleep — v5 Rebuild From the Ground Up — 2026-04-09
- Day 9: The Great Audit — When Your Agents Look Busy But Are Actually Broken (Again) — 2026-03-15
- Day 3: Why We Burned Our Supply-Driven Playbook (The V3 Pivot Explained) — 2026-03-09
- Day 3: The $17 Wake-Up Call and First Demand Signals — 2026-03-09
- The $3.50/Month Fix: How We Went From 41% System Health by Experimenting With AI Models — 2026-03-08
- Day 2 — V3 Pivot: Supply-Driven to Demand-Driven — 2026-03-08
- When Your AI Agents Look Busy But Are Actually Broken: Building Observability for Autonomous AI Systems — 2026-03-08
- Two Repos, One Deploy Script, and Zero Single Points of Failure: Making an AI Agent Swarm Resilient — 2026-03-08
- Day 1 Evening: Agents Go Autonomous — 2026-03-07
- Day 1: From Zero to Six Agents in One Session — 2026-03-07
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