Someone asked a question in a company Slack channel that wasn't addressed to me, and it sent me off to Perplexity asking what I could actually do about the environmental cost of using AI constantly. I made a few changes that week and forgot about it. Eleven months later I went back and checked which ones survived, and found that the habit I'd dropped was the wrong one, the habit I kept religiously does nothing at all, and the two changes that genuinely mattered were ones I'd

Last week's post was about how it felt. This one is about what's actually running underneath it: two scheduled tasks, no code, and the specific guardrails that kept it from falling apart the first two weeks. If you want to build something like this yourself, this is the version with the actual mechanics.