I Built a Micro AI Company on a Single Cloud VPS (Hallucination Prevention, Quality Gates, and Model Tuning)

One cloud VPS. Five AI agents. Marketing, development, QA, and trading monitoring running automatically every day. The hard part was never getting the AI to move - it was stopping it from going off the rails. This post covers the real lessons: the SOL fake prediction incident, invented tool names, quality gate design, how I tuned the Hermes model, and how I tracked down two bugs that took the whole system down.

2026-05-08 · 12 min · 2498 words · Judy
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