Where I practice the work I do for a living. Two small computers at home run the same VMware software big companies run their servers on. An AI agent does the typing. I do the cables and say go.
Plug in the USB installer, run the cables, approve any step that cannot be undone.
Plans each run with me, then splits it into parts.
One per part. Several can run at once.
Types every command, reads every screen, and stops to ask me when a step leaves the plan.
One 2.5 Gb cable to each host.
The software a company uses to run its private cloud, squeezed onto two machines.
start to finish, with the agent at the keyboard
automated sub-tasks passed
and the plan had predicted it
on this lab since Sept 21, each one written up
My job is VMware. Learning it on a customer’s servers is not an option, so I keep a copy at home: two mini PCs, a switch, and the software stack I work with every day.
Setting that stack up by hand takes days of clicking through installers. Here, I plan the run with Claude, and an agent carries it out step by step while I watch.
When a step goes wrong, the agent stops and shows me the screen. Nothing that cannot be undone happens without my yes.
A cable fault splits vSAN. Accepted for a lab; the second port stays free.
Ask about the lab or the agents that run it. Plain answers, no jargon required.