AI Runs the Minecraft Server

Our Minecraft server is called Monkey Island. It has a website now, monkeyisland.fyi, because of course a family Minecraft server needs a website. It also has an AI doing most of the administration. I ask for changes, question the results, and decide what we actually want. The agent inspects the server, researches plugins, changes configuration, reads the logs, and works through the fixes. It keeps the project context in Gorchestra so we can come back to it without starting over every time. ...

September 18, 2026 · 5 min · 877 words · Me · - views

From Chat Window to Process Supervisor

I’ve accumulated a pretty ridiculous number of conversations with AI. There’s one for the Minecraft server, one for the bird microphone, one for the farm application, one for this blog. And then there’s the conversation about the application I built to manage all the other conversations. That application is called Gorchestra. Yes, I built more software to keep track of the software I was already building. This is apparently how I relax. ...

August 15, 2026 · 4 min · 798 words · Me · - views