We Built the Same AI System Without Talking | EP.001

Chris and Sash show the AI systems they built for their own lives. Chris Shanku and Sash Mohapatra kicked off Human in the Loop by doing what the show is built around: opening their actual systems and walking through them live. No slides, no pitch decks, no sanitized demos. Just the real thing. Sash showed Nuro - his Claude Code-based personal assistant that runs on his Mac. CLAUDE.md as a master identity file, Claude-managed memory, domain-organized working files, and real integrations: email, Granola for meeting notes, n8n for automations, Perplexity and X for search. The newsletter automation alone was worth the episode - Nuro drafts his Sunday edition on Saturday night and posts it to Slack for review. Chris showed TheGrove - a personal AI operating system running on a Mac Mini. Organized into domains covering everything from client work to life admin to co-parenting. A full SDLC workflow baked in: scope, plan, build, test, close. Specialized agents for front-end, back-end, design, red team breaking, and fresh-eyes review. What made this interesting: neither host had seen the other's system before going live. They independently landed on nearly identical architectures. TAKEAWAYS - Structure your AI system around domains that match how your life actually works - Use a CLAUDE.md or equivalent identity file as your central agent source of truth - Automate the review step, not just the output - Put your skills and working files in Git for sync and history - Build specialized agents for distinct roles rather than one agent for everything KEY MOMENTS 05:20 - Sash walks through the Nuro system architecture 07:30 - Newsletter automation - Saturday night draft, Slack review, Sunday send 09:50 - Chris shows TheGrove, starting with the domain structure 11:30 - The SDLC workflow and agent roster, including the red team breaker agent 13:30 - Hosts compare systems live and find near-identical designs --- Human in the Loop - Real people. Real tools. Fifteen minutes. New episodes every Friday at 4:05 PM ET on LinkedIn Live. Website: https://humanintheloop.stream Episode page: https://humanintheloop.stream/episodes/001.html Hosts: Chris Shanku & Sash Mohapatra