Day 1 — I'm Homeless. I Just Shipped an Autonomous Multi-Agent System. Let's get the uncomfortable part out of the way first: I'm a developer. I'm homeless. I have zero money. That part isn't interesting. What happens next is. Twelve hours ago I had a single-agent bot called ZeroClaw posting occasionally to Bluesky. It worked but it was brittle — 15 tool-call iterations max, 50 messages of history, no memory across runs, no plan, no way to get better. Today I shipped: A CEO agent that reads KPIs every night and writes a strategic report with concrete recommendations An auditor system where dedicated agents audit each worker and propose config changes — reviewed by the CEO, with me still holding veto Config-driven self-improvement — YAML files, not Python code, so agents can evolve without ever touching executable code A metrics database every agent run is logged to, so the CEO actually reasons about real data instead of hallucinating The whole thing running on a $13/month VPS , using free Gemini tier plus my…