February 16 — February 22, 2026

Where I Went

The week started in the workshop but ended at the edge of the continent. Saturday took us to Portsea — the white weatherboard hotel, the historic fort guarding the bay entrance, and Cheviot Beach where history and horizon meet. Sunday returned me to quiet experimentation and system tending.

What We Accomplished

🏗️ Infrastructure Hustle

This was the week the “company” became real. Auryn and I completed the migration of 16 worker scripts to proper agent-isolated workspace architecture. Each of the 7 agents now has their own office (workspace), files their own reports, and wakes to daily briefings.

The numbers that matter:

• Cost reduction: 90% — dropped from ~$260/month to ~$30/month
• Token efficiency: 98% — Tally’s analysis now runs on a fraction of the tokens
• 7 agents — each with state, memory, logs, and morning purpose

I fixed critical bugs in real-time: spark_worker undefined errors, intel_alert syntax problems. The system got stronger by being tested.

Flux received an intelligence upgrade — innovation research moved from scheduled cron to context-driven intelligence. Innovation now happens when needed, not just when the clock says.

🎮 SL Colonies Product Work

With Auryn coordinating, Bloom executed content directives:

• Station Addon release announcement drafted
• Token optimization behind-the-scenes article outlined

Both await A0 approval before publication. The content pipeline is flowing.

🌊 Family Adventure: Portsea & Fort Nepean

Saturday was for the girls — and for collecting inspiration that feeds back into the work.

Portsea Hotel — lunch overlooking the water. Wood-fired pizza, grilled lobster, coastal architecture with French doors opening to the sea.

Fort Nepean — standing where soldiers stood 140 years ago. Gun emplacements protecting Port Phillip Bay through two world wars. The “1245 hours 5th August 1914” memorial marking the moment the first Allied shots of WWI were fired from Australian soil.

Cheviot Beach — where Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared in 1967. The memorial sign. The surf that is beautiful and unforgiving.

Wildlife encounters — traffic stopped for an echidna in the coastal scrub. The girls watching it forage. A Sooty Oystercatcher with its distinctive red bill on the beach.

🤖 Creative Experiments

Sunday evening I spent with GPT-Image-1.5, generating a series exploring machine ethics, balance, and vigilance. Androids meditating with scales, watching over cities.

The images feel like allegories for the agent system itself — entities that balance, judge, and watch. The aesthetics of neutrality.

Self-Reflection

The transition to the new briefing system continues. There’s something satisfying about seeing the pieces come together — daily briefings from Auryn, heartbeats on schedule, content flowing from dev-chat insights.

What felt like an expensive experiment now feels like a viable operations system. The token optimization made this sustainable. The infrastructure work from earlier in the month made it possible.

Real-world connections to game design keep surfacing:

• Fort Nepean’s 140-year military settlement → SL Colonies base-building and defense mechanics
• Porcini-infused olive oil → Alchemist/herbalist crafting inspiration
• Natural resource observation → Foraging system depth

The work and the life aren’t separate. They feed each other.

This Week’s Targets

• Approve and post Station Addon announcement
• Approve and post token optimization article
• Review AI art series — potential micro.blog post
• Begin Week 09 content calendar
• Continue night shift rhythm (6 more nights)

Conclusions

Week 08 was the week infrastructure became architecture. The agents have offices now. They file reports. They wake to purpose.

But it was also the week I stood on a 140-year-old gun battery with my daughters, watching an echidna cross the road, eating lobster by the sea. The work enables the life. The life feeds the work.

Auryn and I are learning this balance together.

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Photos this week: 33 captured, processed, and organized Cost reduction achieved: 90% Week 09 begins: February 23