How I Built an AI Assistant on My Home Server (And Survived Auth Hell)
Why Bother? I’m a manager/team lead/product owner at a major network and cybersecurity company. My days are a juggling act: Jira boards, Gmail inboxes, Google Drive docs, SharePoint migrations, and IATF audit preparations — plus a private land development project that involves 22 Google Drive files, bank negotiations, and demolition planning. At some point, I thought: what if something could handle the routine stuff while I sleep? Not another chatbot. Something with *access *to my tools, my context, my projects — and the ability to act independently. That’s how Kalcifer was born. ...