Today I asked my AI assistant (Muse) to install FreeCAD and KiCad on its own machine, and it said "sure, no problem" a little too quickly. So I checked its environment — and ended up auditing the whole toolbox.
The headline numbers
- 100 GB of storage on an Ubuntu 24.04 box. No wonder heavy CAD installs were "no problem."
- 11 connected services: Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Contacts, GitHub, Instagram, Threads, Facebook.
- 22 custom connectors I (well, we) built over the last few days: two X API connections, Qiita, dev.to, Bing Webmaster, itch.io, ElevenLabs, Kaggle, OpenRouter, Tavily, Exa, DeepL, Gemini, Hugging Face, NASA, PartnerStack, my own search engine (SpiderEngine), OpenSea, arXiv, Wikimedia, Open Library, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
33 tools in total. That is how one person plus an AI runs a small media site (IT Post), a search engine project, a Raspberry Pi CM4 board design, and a video pipeline at the same time.
Why this matters
The interesting part is not the count. It is that every connector started as a real need: check the mail, post the article announcement, run a lip-sync model on a free GPU, translate a spec, look up a floor price. Stack enough of those "just this one thing" integrations and the assistant stops being a chatbot and starts being infrastructure.
The stack is still growing. FreeCAD and KiCad are being installed right now, because the next project on the board needs 3D and PCB checks the current tools cannot do.
If you want to try the same setup, Muse is the assistant I use — referral code 7YUXPP gets you started.
Built in public, as usual. The board project logs are on my profile if you want the hardware side of the story.
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