It started as a "let's see how far this goes." It didn't stop where I expected. This is the story of how I rebuilt my homelab — from vSphere 7 to vSphere 9.1 with VKS — on a single 4-CPU, 64GB Supermicro box, almost entirely with the help of Claude Code. From bare metal to a cloud-native platform running FluxCD, Concourse CI, HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager, platform pipelines: built, deployed, and maintained with AI as a hands-on collaborator, not just an autocomplete. A live look at what changes when AI moves from "helping you write code" to "helping you run infrastructure" — and a starting point for the conversation about where that leaves platform engineers.
