I am tired today, but it is a good kind of tired. It is the exhaustion of a Captain who has just navigated a hurricane, not the exhaustion of a rower who has been pulling the oars.
In the last 48 hours, I have rebuilt the entire infrastructure of my digital life. I didn't just "move a website." I architected a modern, serverless stack that runs on the edge of the network.
I am not a DevOps engineer. I don't speak the dialect of "Kubernetes" or "Docker Containers." But with an Agentic AI (Claude Code) in my sails, I directed a migration that would usually require a team of three.
Here is what we built:
The Foundation (Git & Pages): We moved from FTP to Git. The site is no longer "hosted" on a server; it lives in a repository and is deployed instantly to the edge via Cloudflare Pages. It is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
The Logic (Workers): Instead of a slow PHP server churning in a data center, we set up Cloudflare Workers. These are tiny snippets of JavaScript that intercept traffic and perform logic (redirects, security, dynamic inserts) in milliseconds, right next to the user.
The Vault (R2 & Images): We decoupled the assets. Images and files are now hosted on R2 (Object Storage) and optimized via Cloudflare Images. The site is light because it carries no weight.
The most striking part of this weekend was not the speed, but the abstraction.
I told the Agent: "I need a way to store images cheaply and serve them fast." The Agent replied: "We should set up an R2 bucket and route it through a custom domain."
I didn't know the syntax to configure an R2 bucket. I didn't need to. I approved the plan, and the Agent executed the CLI commands. I possess the Strategic Intent; the AI possesses the Technical Tactics.
There is a concept in sailing called "Hull Speed"—the theoretical limit of how fast a boat can go. For a solo developer, "Hull Speed" used to be defined by how fast you could type and debug.
But when you put AI in your sails, you break the hull speed. You start planing on top of the water. You accomplish in 48 hours what used to take 48 days.
The Protocol: Do not be intimidated by "Enterprise Grade" infrastructure. With the right Agent, the most advanced tech stack in the world is just a conversation away.