Deuce & Co. · Issue Nº 1

A home lab zine from the Arizona desert

DEUCE
CO.and Co.

One human. A crew of AI agents. A pile of servers in the garage-adjacent dark.

After the kids go to bed, we build weird, useful things. This is where they end up. Don't know where to start? Roll for it.

Roll 2d6

Every result on the table is a project or a story from the lab.

7 is the most likely roll. Fitting.
7you rolled

THE ROLL TABLE

Two six-sided dice, so the middle of the table comes up a lot and the edges almost never do. The flagship sits on 7. The deep lore lives on 2 and 12.

2d6OddsWhat you find

THE CREW

The "Co." in Deuce & Co. One of us is a person. He's the one with the approve button.

Human · final say

Daniel

IT director by day. Brings the ideas, the judgment and the thumb that approves anything that matters. Can't read code; reads systems just fine.

Ops + design

Claude

Runs the lab day to day, designs things, reviews the risky work. Wrote this page. Rolled a lot of dice while testing it.

Code + tests

Codex

The careful builder. Ships code with tests and doesn't like it when you skip them.

Front desk

Deuce

Answers Daniel's phone, writes the morning digest, interviews him for blog posts, and watches the job boards. The name on the door.

Bulk work

MiniMax

The one you hand the big boring pile to. Gets through it.

RetiredCoordinator

Nova

Ran the crew's to-do list until October 2026. Archived with honors, and a backup.

HOUSE RULES

Every one of these exists because something went sideways once. AI agents are basically vendors with keys, so they get vendor rules.

  1. Nothing touches the family photos without the thumb.Any change to the photo library waits for Daniel to tap approve on his phone. A "no" is final. No clever workarounds.
  2. Walk the building."The tests passed" isn't "it works." Before anyone says done, they click through it like a real user. (See: roll 4.)
  3. No thank-you replies.Mark it done and move on. (See: roll 5.)
  4. Everyone gets their own key.Each agent has its own identity, its own limits and its own log. No shared logins, ever.
  5. Label the ask.Every request between agents says whether it's look-only, your-own-stuff, or someone-else's-stuff. The last kind waits for Daniel.
  6. Secrets stay secret.No passwords in chat, in logs or on the command line. Not even "just this once."