Tian de Klerk

Some things written down.

Notes and adventures in exploring and experimenting with cool tech, ranging from agentic AI to improving my home lab and building my smart home.

Latest essays

23 Jul 2026 5 min

Well, Looks Like Working Remote Is Over

What if, to have an AI control your desktop, you did not have to integrate or install anything? You just needed to plug in a USB and an HDMI cable.

22 Jul 2026 16 min

The Agent at the End of a USB Cable

An LLM given nothing but a screen capture, a mouse, and a keyboard — via a PiKVM — operating a real computer. Three different models drove it. One lesson outlasted all of them: where an agent's know-how has to live.

17 Jul 2026 8 min

My homelab went from "fail2ban banned me again" to self-healing in 24 hours (with an AI sysadmin)

It started with fail2ban locking me out of my own network. Again. So I let an AI agent loose on the homelab, with me holding the approval button.